Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday described the conduct of Wednesday's zila parishad and panchayat samiti polls in the state as "brutal and broad daylight murder of democracy."
He said the wanton lawlessness and criminality witnessed yesterday during the polls should finally open the eyes of those who thought that the SAD's fears of poll violence were just a "ruse."
Badal said the SAD is their prime target because "our party has always articulated the Sikh and Punjabi cause in a peaceful and democratic way."
The Congress now is using its old card of dividing Punjabis and conspiring to push the brave Sikh community into a fratricidal civil war, he said
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