Targeting Akali Dal for setting up a garbage dumb in Bhagtanwala near Golden Temple, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh today promised to relocate it from the holy city if Congress comes to power in the state.
"Instead of beautifying the holy city, the Akalis have decided to set up the garbage dump in the heart of it," he said.
In a statement issued here, Amarinder, who represents Amritsar in Parliament, said it was shocking that the ruling Akali Dal had shown no "reverence" towards the holy city by setting up the dump site in the close vicinity of the Darbar Sahab.
He said the aerial distance of the dump is just around one km from the Darbar and makes it easy for flies and insects to fly around, besides the foul smell emanating from it reaches the holy place.
Amarinder claimed that Akalis were planning to move the garbage dump in Bathinda out of the city just because union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal wanted it, but, according to him, had no such "respect and regard" for the holy city.
"Family concerns assume precedence and priority over the public concerns for the Badals," he alleged.
The former chief minister said he had already asked Congress leaders in Amritsar to identify the alternate space for the garbage dump outside the holy city and it must be at a reasonable distance from Golden Temple, so that neither the flies and insects nor foul smell reaches there.
