Former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday hit out at Punjab Chief Minister Amaridner Singh for visiting Israel, saying “it shows an insensitive attitude of the Chief Minister towards the people of the State in their hour of grief in the wake of Amritsar train tragedy.”
“I find it insensitive and careless beyond belief that the Chief Minister chose to leave his State and his people to their own fate and decided to proceed on an utterly avoidable foreign trip. In his shoes, I would have cancelled the trip,” said Mr. Badal here, after submitting a memorandum to Punjab Governor V.P. Singh Badnore.
A joint delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP led by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and BJP State president Shwet Malik submitted a memorandum, demanding registration of criminal cases against all those responsible for the train accident.
“The tragedy could have been easily avoided if the Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and his spouse (Dr. Navjot Kaur) had displayed even the elementary sense of responsibility by refusing to be associated with an event without appropriate government permission,” said Mr. Badal.
Mr. Badal reiterated his party’s demand for the immediate sacking of Mr.Sidhu and registration of criminal cases against all those responsible for their part in the tragedy.