Bjp Irked Over Giving Lists Of Akali Workers To Dc'S

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Deputy Chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's orders to Deputy Commissioners to honour Akali workers and leaders, to the extent of handling down list of names, has ruffled alliance partner, the BJP.The party feels that SAD and BJP as alliance partners were running a coalition government not a “private limited company”, a statement quoted after an emergent meeting of the state BJP presided over by newly elected president Ashwani Sharma.

The release explained that this response was in reference to the alleged distribution of lists of Akali workers to DC's at a meeting held here which was presided over by Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal as well as omission of the saffron party from the ongoing government advertisement campaign. It also said the BJP held the prestige of the SAD-BJP workers on an equal footing and that any attempt to undermine this or differentiate between workers was unacceptable.

The meeting, which included Ashwani Sharma and Manoranjan Kalia condemned what it said were attempts to humiliate the BJP. It decided to convey its displeasure to the SAD and take a commitment that such incidents would not happen again. SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema, however, denied any list of party workers had been supplied to DC's. He said the Deputy CM had only passed “routine instructions” that DC's should not ignore public men.