Sukhbir Singh Badal flays Golden Temple sacrilege incident, says outrage beyond belief
Amritsar Golden Temple sacrilege incident: Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday expressed "shock and disbelief at the most heinous outrage of the attempt to commit sacrilege at the highest and the holiest shrine Sachkhand Shri Harmandir Sahib."
In a statement here, Sukhbir Singh Badal said that it was impossible to believe that this could be the act of just one person. "There clearly is a deep-rooted conspiracy behind it. Never since the Mughals, the Masands, and Operation Bluestar has the sanctity of Shri Harmandir Sahib been made the target of such outrage. This is beyond belief."
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The SAD president said that "the development has left the entire Sikh quom in a state of shock." The former Deputy CM said that there seems a conspiracy to inflict wounds of Sikh minds and to disturb the peace and communal harmony in the state."
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He came down heavily against the state government saying that there were strong indications of such a conspiracy being weaved.
Only the other day, there was a shocking incident of gutka sahib being thrown in the holy sarovar, he said, adding that the state agencies could not have been unaware of a deep-rooted conspiracy that led to the shocking sacrilege incident at Golden Temple in Amritsar.
-PTC News