“The SAD had aggressively supported these legislations. Now Amarinder Singh would function as the full-time tool of the BJP to implement its nefarious anti-people designs, he alleged in a statement here.The chief minister said the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) earlier functioned as the vehicle of the BJP to facilitate its parent organisation RSS to spread its wings in Punjab .And this body went to the extent of distorting even the Sikh history and thought and the literature brought out about a decade ago is evidence of that agenda. The Akali Dal never protested, he alleged.Channi stated that the Akali Dal extended full support to the BJP in its policies of centralisation and cultural homogenisation despite being a votary of federalism for decades.The interests of Punjab were mortgaged to the BJP by the Akali Dal first under the leadership Parkash Singh Badal who had paved the way for this alliance by extending unconditional support to Atal Bihari Vajpayee to form BJP-led government in 1996 that lasted only thirteen days.
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