Amritsar, January 22
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday condemned the parole given to convicted rapist Gurmeet Ram Raheem, saying repeated paroles were being given to Ram Raheem but justice was not being done with Bandi Singhs who were languishing in jails even after completion of their sentences.
Talking to newsmen here, the SAD President said “the need of the hour is to apply a healing touch to anguished Sikh hearts.Instead of doing this the governments are bending over backwards to please a rape and murder convict”. He said this had only exposed the anti – Sikh intent of governments of the day.
The SAD president inducted BJP state Scheduled Caste wing vice president Rakesh Kumar Rinku along with hundreds of his supporters into the SAD on the occasion. He said Rinku’s induction into the SAD had boosted the party in the Majha region and assured the leader due responsibility in the party.
Answering a query, Mr Sukhbir Badal said instead of making meaningless statements chief minister Bhagwant Mann should first try to run the Meritorious Schools established by former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal which even AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal had praised efficiently. “One cannot hope that the AAP government will open any Meritorious Schools. It is interested in cheap publicity only. See how it befooled Punjabis by turning Sewa Kendras established by the erstwhile SAD government into Mohalla Clinics. The move has not helped people as the Clinics are sans doctors and medicines”.
