Navjot Sidhu Attacks Previous Badal Government Over Punjab Sacrilege Incidents

This comes days after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday raised the issue of the 2015 sacrilege incidents, but this time he chose to attack the previous SAD-BJP dispensation for not holding a proper probe into the matter, instead of his own government in Punjab. This comes days after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi, amid efforts by the party leadership to end factionalism in its unit in the poll-bound state. Mr Sidhu had been openly attacking Singh, alleging delay in the delivery of justice in a case related to desecration of a religious text and the subsequent police firing incidents at Faridkot in 2015. He has been critical of the chief minister after the Punjab and Haryana High Court in April quashed a probe into the 2015 firing case.