"Akali workers are being targeted and even eliminated by Congress activists and even the police have become an instrument for unleashing vendetta against the SAD activists," he alleged.
"I have already requested Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to restrain his workers from resorting to vendetta politics but it seems my pleas have not had any effect. The SAD will now go to the people and build a movement against these repressive tactics," Sukhbir said.
He said this on the day Amarinder ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of Gurdev Singh (62) during police's anti-drug raid at Tarmala village in Lambi Assembly constituency yesterday.
"The entire chain of events leading to the death of the Akali worker, Gurdev Singh, made it clear that police were being used to intimidate SAD workers," the former deputy chief minister alleged and asserted that the SAD would not remain a mute spectator to the "brutal repression" being unleashed on the party.
Seeking dismissal from service and registration of murder charges against five members of the police team, Sukhbir said only this would send out a message that the government believes in providing justice to everyone.