Congress to demonstrate at Khatkar Kalan for Sarari’s dismissal
CHANDIGARH, October 18: Punjab Congress will stage a protest demonstration on October 21 at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral place of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh to press for the removal of Fauja Singh Sarari from the cabinet over the grave charges of corruption against him.
Disclosing this here today, PCC president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Congress Legislative Party Leader Partap Singh Bajwa said, this was shameful on part of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab that despite having an open and shut case against Sarari, he was being allowed to continue as a minister in the government, while it was targeting its political opponents on flimsy grounds.
“Not only has the AAP shamelessly been protecting the corrupt like Sarari, it has the audacity to equate the corrupt and tainted ministers like Manish Sisodia and Satyender Jain with Shaheed Bhagat Singh”, the two leaders said, while announcing that they will intensify protests against the government if it failed to act against Sarari.
The PCC president and the CLP leader said the Congress will not let the AAP government have double standards. “While the Congress leaders are being implicated and intimidated on mere hearsay, the AAP is protecting its own people despite having serious and grave charges against them”, they pointed out, adding, this will have to stop.
The two senior Congress leaders said they had chosen Khatkar Kalan as it happens to be the ancestral place of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, whose name the Delhi Chief Minister dragged and equated with his corrupt and tainted ministers. For this, they will also seek Kejriwal’s unconditional apology.
The Congress workers will resolve and rededicate themselves to safeguard and live by the ideals Shaheed Bhagat Singh sacrificed his life for, Warring and Bajwa said and added, they will also sound a loud and clear message to Kejriwal and his ilk that they will not allow any insult to great martyrs like Bhagat Singh to protect his own tainted and corrupt people.
