CM TO TEJENDRA KHANNA: Ensure exemplary punishment to perpetrators of murderous attack on SAD leaders and workers

Chandigarh, November 16, 2012:  Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today called upon the New Delhi Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna to ensure exemplary punishment in accordance with law to the perpetrators of murderous attack on SAD leaders and workers at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib on Thursday.

In a letter to Khanna, the Chief Minister sought his attention also to the manner in which the administration had failed to act decisively against the assaulters of the SAD members. 

The Chief Minister urged Khanna to use his good office to dissuade the Delhi government from going ahead with its proposed move to sabotage the will of the Sikh masses and subverting the spirit and intent of the Supreme Court orders through an amendment aimed at changing the electoral procedure. 

Showing deep anguish over the tragic case of violence at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib, Badal apprised the Lt. Governor that the members and goons belonging to the group led by Paramjit Singh Sarna, currently President, DSGMC, attacked and seriously wounded peaceful and law-abiding members of the Shiromani Akali Dal, including the president of our Delhi unit, Manjit Singh G.K.   He in fact had a providential escape as GK was made the target of a murderous assault by the Sarna group.

Badal also referred to the newspaper reports and photographs of the incident, showing Manjit Singh bleeding profusely in the head and face. Several other members of our unit also received serious injuries as a result of this murderous assault, the Chief Minister revealed to Khanna.

Badal further informed that the root cause of this tragic incident was a highly provocative move of the Delhi Government to interfere in the religious affairs of the Sikhs through a proposed amendment to the electoral procedure of the DSGMC.  This was in complete defiance of the letter and spirit of the orders of the Supreme Court of India, directing that elections to the DSGMC be held in December this year.  But the Delhi government was out to sabotage this order to help its stooges for narrow political ends, ahead of assembly elections in Delhi.