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Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh has accused the Congress, AAP and the Shiromani Akali Dal of sowing the seeds of caste and religious dissension in the state. He said this move would backfire on the parties, who are “compromising the peace and security of the border state to further their narrow political interests”.
The former chief minister alleged that the parties are attempting to “polarise” harmonious Punjab society. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had started the “divisive” campaign by announcing a Dalit deputy CM if elected to power, triggering a mad race to follow suit, he said in a statement here.
The Congress, which had fallen unthinkingly for the Akali ploy, will pay for its mistake in announcing its CM face on caste lines, he said. “Have these parties ever thought about the consequences such divisiveness could have on a border state like ours,” asked Singh. None of these parties will be able to reap the benefit of their “separatist” policies, he said. It will be the NDA alliance that will form the government in the state, he asserted, adding that the PLC-BJP-SAD Sanyukt coalition will consolidate the votes lost by these parties in the coming days.
