Congress Lashes Out At Bjp For Supporting Bluestar Memorial

[Azaad]

The Congress today lashed out at the BJP for its approval to Operation Bluestar Memorial.

The BJP vice-president and party incharge of Punjab affairs, Shanta Kumar, has said yesterday that he was satisfied with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s plea that the “memorial will commemorate all those killed in the Army operation, including innocent persons and not just the militants”.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary and Dhuri MLA Arvind Khanna said this simply meant that the BJP had no objection to a memorial for the militants. “In that case, why should the BJP object to honouring Balwant Singh Rajoana either,” he asked.

“There can be a memorial either for the militants or the innocent persons and not for both”, he said. Khanna said the BJP owed an explanation to the kin of terrorist victims as to why it had supported the memorial. “It is clear choice between principles and power”, Khanna remarked, pointing out, “ the BJP has opted for power while forsaking its principles”. Khanna, however, said he was not surprised at the BJP’s double standards.

[Jonny101]

Congress party which is responsible for all the bloodshed that happened in Punjab is really shameless to say the least. They are the ones who should be explaining why they perpetrated the worst genocide against the Sikh people since Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion of Punjab instead of trying to make others feel guilty. Shame on the Congress party!!!

[singh1986]

Speaking to politically active BJP members in Gujarat and UK, there seems to be a growing faction that is moving away from the extremist Hindutuva ideology and Hindu nationalism... its weak compared to RSS/Shiv Sena backers BUTT its growing....!

Not all BJP'ers want to associated with nationalist hardliners that want to stop foreign influence and propagate the drinking cow urine sort of ideology...

The backing off the memorial might be a shrewd political move... but I sense change