Amarinder questions Badal's silence on 'panthic agenda'

Amarinder Singh today questioned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's silence over the allegation that he was resorting to 'panthic agenda'.
"It does not behove well for someone like you (Badal) to use someone else for explaining your position", Amarinder said, while referring to the statements by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the CM's defence on the issue.
SAD had yesterday condemned the Congress MP's charges that Badal was pursuing "Panthic and Khalistani agenda" in Punjab, saying such "false, baseless and irresponsible statements reflect the utter frustration of the leader".
Reiterating his charges against the CM, Amarinder stated, that Badal was deeply mistaken if he thought that he could divert public attention from the real issues they were facing.

"You can befool some people sometimes but not all the people all the times," the Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha cautioned Badal against "resorting to panthic agenda" for his own political survival.
"You (Badal) have already started moving that way and knowing you so well, I am sure, the day will not be too far when you will cry wolf about 'panth in danger'", he said.

Nobody was going to buy this deceit as people of Punjab know very well that Badal was trying to divert their attention from the real issues of drugs, unemployment, lawlessness and a sliding economy, Amarinder said.

The former Punjab CM said he could notice the old characteristic style and pattern in Badal "starting the fire by raising emotions and tempers of common masses" and then hiding in some government guest house on the pretext of being jailed, leaving people to suffer.
"But let me tell you (Badal), Punjab has moved far past that era when you could misguide the people by wailing about 'Panth in danger'. Now they know you and your shenanigans too well," he said.