"Conspiracy Theories": Akali Dal Breaks Silence On Amritpal Singh Crackdown
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He condemned the 'indiscriminate arrests' of Sikh youth, especially Amritdhari youth (baptised Sikh youth), who he said are innocent.
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday, day three of the hunt for Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh, broke its silence on the massive operation to arrest the radical leader and his associates. Sukhbir Singh Badal, president of the party, strongly criticised the Aam Aadmi Party government in the state for the "undeclared emergency and reign of repression and terror". He accused the AAP of spreading 'conspiracy theories' to defame the Sikh community, and condemned the arrest of "innocent Sikh youth". SAD strongly comdemns the puppet AAP regime in Punjab for the undeclared emergency and reign of repression & terror let loose in the state. We warn the govt against dangerous conspiracies to defame the most patriotic Sikh community for communal polarization & electoral gains. 1/5
In a series of tweets on Monday evening, Mr Badal also said that five times Chief Minister and Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal had pulled the state out of "bloody cycle of terror and repression" and started an era of peace and progress. Pointing to the Emergency and a violent separatist movement for Khalistan in the 1980s and early 1990s in which thousands of people died, he said successive governments since have "pushed Punjab back into the jaws of insecurity and repression", he said.
"Govt led by S Parkash Singh Badal had pulled the state out of the bloody cycle of terror & repression and started an era of peace & progress. But the govts that followed have pushed Punjab back into the jaws of insecurity and repression reminiscent of the dark and tragic era," he tweeted.
