Badal was responding to questions on the Supreme Court's observation castigating the CBI after dismissing a case of disproportionate assets against BSP supremo Mayawati.
Even the Apex Court has gone to the extent of describing the CBI as a caged parrot and asked the Centre to submit a report regarding granting autonomy to the premier investigating agency, the SAD president said after inducting Ravinder Singh Babaal, a former Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Congress government, in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
Lashing out at the Union Government for making a mockery of the martyrdom of five soldiers killed in an ambush in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector, he said the country was suffering disgrace due to indecisive leadership.
Congress leaders have understood that it was only the SAD-BJP combine which understands the aspirations of grass root level workers and crafts policies according to actual need of the poor, the deputy chief minister added.
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