Cong hits out at AAP over Bhindranwale poster row in Punjab

Congress today accused AAP of circulating posters and exhorting people in Punjab to mark the birth anniversary of Khalistani separatist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and asked whether it wanted "anarchy" in the state.
The party also asked whether the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit, which is in power in Delhi, would urge people in the national capital to celebrate Bhindranwale's birth anniversary.
"Would they like anarchy to prevail in Punjab? Will they be celebrating (the birth anniversary) in Delhi also on a large scale and urge the people to come forward and take part in it?
"I think that is something that definitely needs to be clarified by them," Congress spokesperson RPN Singh told reporters here.

Senior AAP leader and in-charge Punjab Affairs Sanjay Singh, however, rejected the claims made by Congress. He had yesterday dismissed the issue as being "dirty politics" by its opponents.
BJP's Punjab unit, meanwhile, has accused AAP of trying to "destabilise" the state by exhorting people to mark the birth anniversary of Bhindranwale and termed it an "anti-national activity".

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh had yesterday asked AAP to come clean about the "posters", which allegedly bear pictures of Bhindrawale, Arvind Kejriwal, Sucha Singh Chhotepur, Sanjay Singh and Bhagwant Mann and exhort people to celebrate the slain Khalistani leader's birth anniversary by paying obeisance at the nearest gurdwara.

To a question about a controversy in JNU over a protest against the hanging of Parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru, Singh said the court had declared Guru a terrorist and the judgement was pronounced after giving him all the legal options available.
"He was hanged as a terrorist. We cannot have anarchy in our universities... The hanging was after a long-drawn out judicial process," the Congress spokesperson said.
Asked about the statement by Haryana minister Anil Vij that anybody desirous of eating beef should not visit the state, Singh said there is a large section in BJP which makes "illogical and immature" statements just to be in news as they suffer from "the disease of publicity".

He also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over claims by some farmers that they have been asked to cut their standing crops prematurely to make way for people to reach the venue where Modi is expected to be felicitated for his new crop insurance scheme on February 18.
"We have come to know that the Prime Minister will hold four rallies to wipe the tears of farmers. Even before the first rally, farmers' crops have been cut. The country has seen the attitude of the government towards farmers," said Singh.