Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh today alleged that the Parkash Singh Badal's government had in 1978 ordered acquisition of land for construction of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and did not plead the case properly in the Supreme Court.
Accusing Badal of having "deliberately weakened" Punjab's case in the apex court on SYL issue for "political interests", he alleged, "Badal wants to wriggle out of his decade-long failures and will make the SC order against Punjab an excuse to resign. This is why his government did not plead properly."
Badal had accused Amarinder of spreading "disinformation" over SYL issue.
Over threats of arrest hurled at each other by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia in Amritsar yesterday, Amarinder said, "They brought down the level of serious political discourse to a petty fight between two street bullies."
"When the state should be concerned about the farmers' suicides, drugs, unemployment and economy, they are behaving like street bullies threatening each other with post-dated arrest warrants," the state Congress chief said.
Kejriwal had dared Majithia to get him arrested, while the SAD leader had hit back, saying the AAP national convener will not "escape the clutches of law".
Asserting that the two were playing a "fixed match", Amarinder said, "They are desperately hoping that a strong AAP will damage Congress so that they may get re-elected and that is why they are trying to revive AAP. But rest assured, we won't let that happen."
The way Majithia got summons delivered personally to Kejriwal, only indicated that he was helping him to divert public attention from the "embarrassing" situation AAP had placed itself in, with a series of "follies and fiascoes", Amarinder claimed.
