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Strange company that Badal keeps, now shares
anti-Punjabi stage
WSN Network

Jalandhar: At a time when Punjabis on both sides of the Radcliffe Line are crying hoarse for open borders and more trade, here was Parkash Singh Badal, the tall leader of the Sikhs and CM of Indian Punjab, joining hands with the hatred-spewing saffron friends on a stage from which BJP president Rajnath Singh declared that of his party came back to power, it will snap all ties with Pakistan.

Addressing a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha rally here on Sunday, the BJP national president said, "If voted to power, the NDA would snap all ties with Pakistan”.

“We would hold straightforward talks with the Pakistan government on curbing ISI’s anti-India activities. If the desired results are not achieved, we would snap all ties with Islamabad,” he said.

Badal did not utter a word in protest and failed to underline that the senttiments of Punjabis, who were the prime victims of history's worst massacre and went through the pain of Partition, were entirely different from BJP's agenda.

The BJP leader made a lot of noise about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the burning of the tricolour besides unfurling of the Pakistan flag and talked about new laws laws to prevent such activities but did not say a word about what led to such a situation.

In such a cleft stick was Badal caught at one stage that when a journalist asked him about the issue of Chandigarh being given to Punjab, he did nto dare to state his party's stand and instead made light of it saying the day belonged to Rajnath. So much for the fraternal BJP-Akali relationship!

1 October 2008
 

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