During a debate in Lok Sabha, the former Punjab chief minister referred to the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections and said, “This is also an emergency that a Member of Parliament elected by 20 lakh people in Punjab has been detained under the NSA (National Security Act) .He is unable to speak about his constituency here (in Parliament).This is also an emergency.”While Channi did not name anyone, BJP leaders said he was speaking about Amritpal Singh.Singh won the Khadoor Sahib constituency by a margin of around 2 lakh votes in this year’s Lok Sabha polls.In a post on X, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said the Congress must answer whether the party was in support of the idea of Khalistan that led to the assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
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