Monday 13 June 2016

Just one cut, ‘Udta Punjab’ ready to fly



Just one cut, ‘Udta Punjab’ ready to flyThe film has been in news ever since it came to light that the Censor Board had demanded 89 cuts.
Mumbai, June 13
Admonishing the censor board for acting like a “grandmother”, the Bombay High Court today ordered it to certify the movie “Udta Punjab” within 48 hours with just one cut instead of 13 suggested by the CBFC, so its producers can release it on June 17.
“Barring the deletion of the urination scene as directed by the board and modification of the disclaimer, the June 6 order passed by the CBFC’s revising committee directing for 13 changes is set aside,” the court said, clearing the decks for the release of the drug-themed film.
The Bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi  raised questions about the CBFC’s powers to censor movies as the word “censor” did not figure in the Cinematograph Act and said if cuts had to be made, those should be in consonance with the Constitution and directions of the Supreme Court.
“Censor in common parlance means to certify a movie. Therefore, if by law the board is empowered to make changes, cuts, or deletions, this power of the CBFC must be consistently in consonance with the provisions of the Constitution,” Justice Dharmadhikari said.
“The hard work of lawyers has paid off. I am terribly pleased with the verdict,” director Abhishek Chaubey said. 

‘Don’t act like a granny’

  • Do not act like a grandmother. Change as per the times now. The CBFC need not be oversensitive in the matter of art…This will kill creativity — Bombay High Court

Akalis benefitting from drug business, says Rahul

JALANDHAR: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal of turning a blind eye to drug menace in the state as his party men and he were benefiting from it.
PARDEEP PANDIT/HT‘Toffee with Capt’: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh giving a toffee to party’s national vice-president Rahul Gandhi during a dharna in Jalandhar on Monday.
Leading a Congress dharna against drugs and deteriorating law-and-order situation in the state, Rahul said when he had called drug abuse a very serious issue in Punjab four years ago, Sukhbir had accused him of maligning the state’s image.
“Now, ‘Udta Punjab’, a movie based on the issue, is being banned in the state. Once again, he (Sukhbir) is not willing to accept the truth (about drug abuse in Punjab), because ignoring it is benefiting them (Akalis),” said the Congress vice-president during his 10-minute speech, while accusing SAD leaders of earning huge profits from drug trade.
Rahul, who preferred to sit with second-rung leaders of the party instead in the VVIP enclosure during the well-attended dharna outside the Jalandhar mini-secretariat, said chitta (drugs) has ruined the future of Punjab.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for their statement on ease of doing business under their regimes, Rahul said: “Patronised by Akali leaders, the only business that has flourished in Punjab is drug trade.”
Rahul slammed the SAD government for sidelining good officers in the Punjab Police to prevent them from cracking a whip on drug trade ,“It is the Punjab Police that overcame the problem of terrorism in the state. Nowhere else in the world terrorism has been wiped out completely.
The Akali government, however, sidelined ‘good officers’ and delegated important duties and full powers to ‘bad officers’,” he said, adding that bringing to an end the interference in policing will help curb drug menace and address other law and order problems in the state.
Highlighting Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh’s promise to wipe out drugs within a month of forming the government in Punjab, Rahul said the Congress government will do so by giving powers to “upright officers”.‘NEW LAW TO SELL PROPERTIES OF DRUG PEDDLERS’
Claiming only the Congress could curb drug menace in Punjab, Rahul said if voted to power, it will enact a law to sell properties of drug peddlers and give the money earned from it to those who have suffered due to drug abuse.
“Let us fight drug menace collectively, and not feel embarrassed to admit the problem plagues the state. Let us talk about it and help our party wipe it off,” he said.
Rahul promised that the Congress will wage a war against drugs on the lines of the party’s agitation against land acquisition. The Congress vice-president also said the party will work for both farmers and industrialists, and not make any false promises if elected to form the government.

Rahul: Punjab has ease of business only in drugs

Says Cong will end menace within a month in power
Rahul: Punjab has ease of business only in drugsCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi with party workers during a demonstration outside the DAC office in Jalandhar on Monday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 13
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that contrary to their constant refrain of the “ease of business”, it is only the “drug trade” that is flourishing in Punjab.
Addressing a massive state-level demonstration against the “deteriorating law and order situation and the scourge of drugs” in front of the District Administrative Complex here, Rahul squarely blamed the Akali leaders for patronising the drug mafia.
Appealing to the people of Punjab to wipe out SAD-BJP in the Assembly elections, he reiterated his statement of 70 per cent Punjabis being hooked on drugs.
“Akali leaders, including Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal, mocked at me and blamed me for having defamed Punjab. Today, I repeat what I had said four years ago. The future of Punjab is getting spoiled with chitta (white drug powder). Now, the Akalis have even made all possible attempts to scuttle the release of movie ‘Udta Punjab’, as they do not want to accept the reality and are scared of getting exposed.”
In his eight-minute speech, Rahul did not blame the state police. “Punjab Police fought terrorism with valour and it is not that the police are incapable of combating the problem. Problem hai ke Akali leaders ne achhe officers ko ‘khude line’ mein laga rakha hai (Problem is that the Akalis have sidelined good officers).”
Backing state party chief Capt Amarinder Singh, he said, “He has rightly said that the drug menace would be brought to an end in just a month after he takes over the reins of the state. He knows he just has to post competent and honest officers, replacing those with a tarnished image, which unfortunately the SAD is deliberately not doing.” 
Capt Amarinder asserted that a recent study pointed to the drug menace worsening to 78 per cent, rather than 70 per cent. He did not elaborate.
Those at the dharna included Harish Chaudhary, Ambika Soni, Shamsher Singh Dullo, Partap Singh Bajwa, Charanjit Singh Channi, Sunil Jakhar, Ch Santokh Singh, Ravneet Bittu, Raja Warring, Vijay Inder Singla and organiser Rana Gurjeet Singh.http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/community/rahul-punjab-has-ease-of-business-only-in-drugs/251538.html



I went to gurdwara to save Sikhs, not attack them, says Kamal Nath

ANTI-SIKH RIOTS Fighting allegations, Cong leader says Nanavati Commission had absolved him

CHANDIGARH: While the Congress chose to downplay the uproar over appointment of senior leader Kamal Nath as the general secretary in charge of Punjab and Haryana, the leader was left fighting allegations of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on his involvement in the 1984 antiSikh riots.
Claiming that Nanavati Commission had absolved him, Nath in an interview to HT on Monday said he had gone to Gurdwara Rakabganj on November 1, 1984, as a “senior and responsible” party leader to save Sikhs from rioters, and not to incite the mob.
Hitting out at the SAD, the Congress leader said the matter was also raised in the Parliament, but Akalis were never able to bring any charge against him in the past 30 years. He also accused AAP national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of trying to “regain lost ground” in Punjab by raking up the issue, and said he was ready to take them on.
Though the commission headed by justice GT Nanawati had found Kamal Nath’s reply on the time of reaching and leaving the gurdwara “vague”, it had concluded that there was “no evidence” that he incited the mob or was involved in the attack on Sikhs.Nath was issued a notice by the commission on the testimony of Mukhtiar Singh, who was residing in one of the staff quarters of the gurdwara, and journalist Sanjay Suri. Mukhtiar had told the inquiry panel that Nath was “instructing” the mob.
Suri had said in his affidavit to the panel that the “crowd was looking at the Congress MP for directions”. The journalist, however, did not hear Kamal Nath giving any direction to the mob. He merely saw him speaking to different persons who were in the mob.

Kamal Nath, in his affidavit, stated that he went there as a “senior and responsible” leader of the Congress. “I was told that some Hindu men and women were held hostage inside the gurdwara. I tried to dissuade the mob from attacking the gurdwara. When the police commissioner came there, I was satisfied that the situation will be controlled, and left.”

‘Drugs killed my nephew; save your kids’: At bhog, Punjabi NRI tycoon shatters denial

Something has gone wrong with Punjabi culture... Moral degradation and collapse of the education system have together birthed a generation that does not know how to live with patience, as was prescribed in Gurbani. DARSHAN SINGH SAHSI, NRI businessman
From page 01 CHANDIGARH: “I don’t want to hide the truth. My nephew has died of drug addiction,” says NRI business tycoon Darshan Singh Sahsi. It is a day after his publicly acknowledgement in a poignant speech at the gurdwara in Rajgarh near Doraha, 20km from Ludhiana, where on Sunday he addressed the collective grief of a village, and a community’s grave denial.
It was the ‘bhog-ardas’ (concluding prayers) for 36-year-old Jagjit Singh Sahsi — who leaves behind his wife and a daughter barely six years old — and Darshan was speaking in gratitude to the hundreds who turned up to share the grief.
While much is being made of a political slugfest over the drug menace, and data is being thrown around, it took an ultrasuccessful NRI ‘chacha’ (uncle) — a living symbol of modern Punjabi success — to acknowledge ground reality. Before him, politicians delivered condolence messages without mentioning the open secret.
Jagjit was found dead with a packet of ‘chitta’ (smack/heroin) in his hand. “I have flourished on foreign shores, lived the dream, so to speak! But I am a failure. I could not save my child”: On the phone with HT on Monday, Darshan echoes the thanksgiving speech, as also described by senior journalist Baljit Balli, who was present at the bhog.
“Something has gone wrong with Punjabi culture... Moral degradation and collapse of the education system have birthed a generation that does not know how to live with ‘sanjam’ (patience), as was prescribed in Gurbani (words of the Sikh gurus).”
He doesn’t know whom to blame: “People name ministers; I find all that hard to believe. But, who are the dealers? ‘Chitta’ is home-delivered now!”
He further says, “There is no guidance, no direction, particularly for rural youth. Easy money and less manual work mean you have an entire generation in this trap.” ‘LIKE A SON’ The nephew, Jagjit Singh Sahsi, was more of a son to Darshan, who runs a multinational cloth-recycling business and has family farmland in the village. “Jagjit’s father, my elder brother, died in 1979. My other brother went to Canada in 1985, while I followed him in 1991. Since we took Jagjit’s elder brother too to Canada, he lived here with his mother. We wanted him to study first. But he fell into wrong company. And we thought it was a passing phase.”But this was no “ordinary recreation like opium”, says Darshan, recounting when the enormity hit him.
“Ten years ago, Jagjit’s mother was on her deathbed at a Delhi hospital (she died of brain haemorrhage). On the day, when we sat down to eat, he collapsed. Not even love for his mother could make him skip his day’s dose. I had never felt as helpless as I did that day.”
Policemen told him “this ‘chitta’ deadens the brain”.
They married him off, “hoping it would set him right”, and helped him migrate to Australia. “But he found ‘stuff ’ there too... He kept asking for money on one pretext or the other, and I kept sending,” Darshan recalls, “I thought we should keep him comfortable so he does not go back to drugs.” After the birth of his child, Jagjit returned to the village, and was hooked worse. “Last time I got close to taking him to Canada was around four years ago, but he was rejected in the investor-visa interview. He was so intoxicated that he could not show his documents properly.” ‘WE CARRY IT WITH US’ About the culture, he says the problem is “very much present” in the “under-educated” Punjabis in Canada too. “We carry this with us,” he says. In his speech, though, he said it’s a problem amongst the White population too. “Only parents and family can curb this menace. Don’t run after money! Save your kids. Educate them,” he beseeched in his 45-minute address.
He adds that he had once made a list of local dealers by scanning through his nephew’s phone: “I shared it with the police; but I see that many of those are still active. Two or three of them died of drugs themselves. If I know the names, won’t the local police?”

Among those who spoke at the bhog were Punjab assembly speaker and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Charanjit Singh Atwal, and Congress MLA Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, while Ludhiana MP Ravneet Bittu too attended. The who’s who of the area was present.

Capt cites ‘new study’, claims 78% state population on drugs

JALANDHAR: Amid the ongoing controversy over the “Udta Punjab”, Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday citied a new survey claiming that 78% of the population in Punjab is hooked to drugs.
“A few years back, Rahul ji had disclosed that 70% of the population of our state is hooked to drugs. Now, a new survey has come stating that the 78% of people are hooked to drugs. Those between the age group of 18 and 44 are the worse hit,” claimed Amarinder in his speech at the dharna here, without disclosing the source of the study.
Referring to the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab, he said, the Namdhari matriarch was killed about two months ago and then Sikh preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale was attacked.
“In Jalandhar, a Congress worker was shot dead in broad daylight. Today only, an electrician succumbed to his injuries in Jalandhar after he was beaten up by a BJP leader close to state party president Vijay Sampla. Punjab has become a law-less state,” claimed Amarinder. NO SEATING ARRANGEMENT Even as the dharna was wellattended with impressive crowd, including women and youths, the seating arrangements were not up to the mark. Since the crowd was seated on both sides of the stage, Rahul and other Congress leaders remained visible to only a few hundred workers sitting around the VIP gallery. A large number of people were seen outside the dharna venue. FACTIONALISM TO THE FORE Factionalism came to the fore at the dharna as former Punjab Congress chief and Rajya Sabha member Partap Singh Bajwa was stopped midway from addressing the workers by rally coordinator Rana Gurjit Singh due to shortage of time. Irritated, Bajwa lambasted Rana and said he was expecting this from him.“Rana ji, I knew that you will not allow me to speak in front of Rahul Gandhi. I was expecting this from you,” Bajwa said. The former state party chief was given a chance to speak after junior leaders, including Fatehgarh Sahib MLA Kuljit Nagra.
Bajwa did not forget to mention that under his leadership, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe was demanded into the allegations against revenue minister Bikrim Singh Majithia for his alleged involvement in the drug racket. He smartly referred to the role of Amarinder, who had objected to the demand of a CBI probe against Majithia. Both Bajwa and Captain didn’t even wish each other. JAKHAR GETS SPECIAL TREATMENT Having strained relations with Amarinder as per media reports, former CLP leader Sunil Jakhar received special treatment at the dharna. In order to bring him back in the mainstream with Amarinder, Jakhar was made head of the reception committee of Rahul at the Adampur air force station along with MLA Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Punjab Youth Congress chief Amarpreet Lalli and PCC general secretary Tejinder Bittu. Jakhar was seated on a sofa even as seniors leaders, including, Lal Singh, were sitting on the floor.

Kamal Nath defends himself on ’84 riots

Says Nanavati Commission had not found him guilty
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 13
Newly appointed Punjab Congress affairs incharge Kamal Nath today defended himself in the ongoing row over his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, saying that his name had been cleared by the Nanavati Commission probing the matter.
On his first day in the new role, Nath said, “I was given the clean chit in this case. I appeared before the Commission, which did not find me guilty. Still I will be fine if the Congress leadership reverses its decision to have me as the party general secretary for Punjab. I had not asked for this role.”
The statement came amid the Opposition outburst, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP accusing the Congress of “rubbing salt into the wounds of Sikh victims of the 1984 riots”.
AAP leader HS Phoolka slammed the move as a “Congress’ gift to Punjab”, while the BJP’s Kailash Vijayvargiya said, “The Congress has added insult to injury by naming Kamal Nath as the party incharge for Punjab.”
Nath, a Punjabi who earlier served as Congress general secretary from 2001 to 2004, had been exonerated by the Nanavati Commission probing the alleged involvement of party leaders in the riots. Still, the ghost of the carnage has followed the nine-time Lok Sabha MP from Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh), who owed his entry into politics to Sanjay Gandhi.
Nath was named an accused in the case about his presence at Gurdwara Rakabganj on November 1, 1984, the day miscreants torched the historical Sikh shrine and killed two Sikhs. Before the Commission, Nath acknowledged his presence at the gurdwara that day but denied the accusations of having led the crowds to kill or torch.
His name had finally been cleared and no CBI probe was recommended.
However, many Congress leaders from Punjab feel Nath’s appointment in the state would prove “”politically costly to the party”.
“There’s no doubt that the party brought in Nath for his managerial skills and tremendous resourcefulness. Yet there will be more damage of this decision than benefit. The damage has already been done. The reversal of this decision won’t help,” said a senior party leader from the state.

Party wary at rally

  • Jalandhar: Wary of queries about the controversial appointment of Kamal Nath as the Punjab party affairs incharge, the senior Congress leadership avoided a formal media interaction here on Monday. Ludhiana MP and campaign committee convener Ravneet Singh Bittu said, “We conveyed all kinds of reactions in this regard to Rahul Gandhi. We also handed over clippings of media reports to him.” — TNS

SGPC slams Cong move

  • Amritsar: SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar here on Monday slammed the Congress' decision to appoint Kamal Nath as the general secretary in charge of the party's affairs in Punjab. Terming the appointment as "rubbing salt into the wounds of Sikhs", the SGPC president said former Lok Sabha member Kamal Nath had guided the mob towards Gurdwara Rakabganj, which led to the killing of several innocent Sikhs in 1984. — TNS
  • Rahul insulting Punjabis with drug rant: SAD

  • Tribune News Service
    Chandigarh, June 13
    The Akali Dal said today that it was a matter of shame for Rahul Gandhi to first dub 70 per cent of Punjabis as drug addicts and now add insult to injury by insisting that they accept this false claim as true.
    Stating that Rahul was becoming party to maligning Punjabis as drug addicts just as his grandmother, Indira Gandhi, had tagged them as terrorists, the SAD asked him to explain why he had insisted during his speech in Jalandhar today that Punjabis should accept that they were drug addicts.
    In a statement here, SAD spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said, “I can understand that your father, Rajiv Gandhi encouraged the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide with his utterances and even protected the perpetrators. But you should not have followed in his footsteps by appointing a riot ‘accused’, Kamal Nath, as the party incharge of Punjab affairs. It is clear that you have no love lost for Punjabis or their sentiments, so please stop shedding crocodile tears over drugs in the state.”
    The SAD leader claimed that the drug trade had flourished during the Congress rule in Punjab.

    Cong rally sidelights
    • On reaching the dharna site, Rahul Gandhi surprised party leaders by sitting on the ground among them in an enclosure rather than occupying a chair in the VIP gallery. PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh and other leaders sitting in the gallery followed him to the enclosure in front of the media gallery. Soon, the selfie sessions began.
    • Alleging that his men were denied entry into the VIP circle, Bajwa said he would take up the matter with the party high-ups
    • Chief spokesperson Sunil Jakhar, party leaders Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Tejinder Bittu and Ashwin Bhalla received Rahul at Adampur airforce base, greeting him with a corn cob (chhalli)
    • Rahul especially called Manpreet Badal from the outer enclosure to the VIP gallery

Court rejects Majithia’s plea

Ludhiana, June 13
Judicial Magistrate Jagjit Singh today dismissed Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia’s plea seeking the cancellation of bail of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh in a defamation case.
AAP state legal cell head Himmat Singh Shergill and Ashok Upadhya welcomed the court decision. Sanjay Singh also hailed the order. The case will come up for hearing on July 30. — OC

Brar fires salvos at Amarinder

Nikhil Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 13
Reacting to the anti-drugs protest held in Jalandhar today under the leadership of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, former AICC Working Committee member and ex-MP Jagmeet Singh Brar said, “Before organising such artificial and hollow protests, Rahul Gandhi should put his own house in order and clean up the Congress leadership in Punjab of people who support and protect the drug mafia.”
In a direct attack on Capt Amarinder Singh, he said “The people of Punjab can see through your crocodile tears today, you must tell them what personal interests you had when you blocked the demand for a CBI probe on drugs in 2014,” he said.
He asked, “Is Rahul Gandhi aware that sitting Cong Lok Sabha MP from Jalandhar Santokh Singh had been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in drugs cases, and has he forgotten that sitting Cong Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa was accused of drug dealing by none other than Capt Amarinder Singh himself?”
Brar also asked, “Why didn’t Rahul Gandhi name Majithia even once in his speech? Every child in Punjab knows he’s the kingpin. Does he not know or did Capt request him not to name Akali leaders because then fingers will point back at the Congress too.”
Commenting on Rahul Gandhi’s confidence that the Punjab Police was capable of tackling the drug menace in four weeks, he said “This is the same Punjab Police whose IG (Border Zone) Meena said the 50 per cent of the force are drug addicts. We ask for a CBI inquiry in the smallest matters, why didn’t Rahul Gandhi ask for a CBI inquiry even today, was he stopped by Capt Amarinder Singh again?”
He said the Congress and Akalis were fooling the people of Punjab by making false promises like clean-up of drugs from the state in four weeks and added, “Let Rahul Gandhi first clean up the Congress of drug supporters and Majithia protectors in four weeks, then people may believe these magical promises.”

Bajwa men denied entry into VVIP enclosure

Bajwa men denied entry into VVIP enclosureFormer PPCC secretary Anil Dutta being stopped by security personnel at the entrance of the venue where the event was to take place. Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh

Nikhil Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 13
Alleging that his men were denied entry into the VVIP enclosure during Rahul Gandhi’s visit today for a dharna against law and order and drug scourge, Rajya Sabha MP and former PPCC president Partap Bajwa today said that he would take up the matter with the higher-ups.
Bajwa’s supporters said their names were deliberately not put up in the list of the VVIPs so as to hinder their entrance even to an outer enclosure. Former PPCC secretary Varinder Sharma faced embarrassment when he was made to leave the special enclosure made for the VVIPs. “No member of former PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa was allowed to sit in the special enclosure, while members of the Captain camp, who are not even the officer-bearers of the PPCC, were allowed to sit there. It has become the culture of the Congress to encourage groupism in the party which is not a healthy sign,” Sharma rued, adding that it was worse to see our leader (Bajwa) being interrupted during his speech, which clearly irritated him.
Sharma further lamented, “Though I had received an invitation from the Congress according to which I was entitled to sit with the special coterie of leadership, I was made to leave for being a part of the Bajwa group. An OSD of Capt Amarinder Singh pointed to an SPG cop there, who made me vacate the section.”
Anil Dutta, a former PPCC secretary also of the Bajwa camp, was stopped by the securitymen from entering the enclosure. It was only after some senior Congress leaders intervened in the matter that he was allowed to enter the special enclosure. “I was stopped because someone else entered the VVIP enclosure using my name, but later on the intervention of the All-India Youth Congress chief, I was allowed,” Dutta added.
Another former PPCC secy Satnam Bitta said, “If we were given the passes, why were not allowed to sit in the VVIP enclosure? They insulted me for being member of the Bajwa group. I will lodge my protest with high command,” Bitta added.
District Women Congress president Jasleen Sethi, too, was stopped by securitymen, but party leaders came to her rescue. In a clear reflection of internal bickering, many Jalandhar leaders had held separate meetings as a prelude to the event with their clear motive to exhibit their own show of strength before Rahul Gandhi.

From drugs to ‘1984’

Congress rescues Akalis from Udta Punjab falloutAs if the embarrassing loss of face in the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana was not bad enough, the Congress has scored another self-goal by making Kamal Nath its Punjab in-charge, a post held hitherto by Shakeel Ahmed without controversy and with reasonable success. In one stroke, the party has bailed out the ruling SAD-BJP combine from the continuing shame over the drug issue and scratched the 1984 Sikh wounds, something Chief Minister Badal has been trying to do with limited success. What is worse for the party, the thoughtless decision came a day before Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s dharna at Jalandhar which was meant to politically exploit the drug issue. 
For quite some time opposition leaders in Punjab had been trying to nail the Akali Dal-BJP government for giving a free run to drug pedllers. None has been able to do it as effectively as a mediocre film-maker turned censor board chief. By suggesting cuts in Udta Punjab, Pahlaj Nihalani unwittingly contributed to opposition unity on a single issue and took Punjab’s drug problem countrywide. If allowed a choice, Badal would happily settle on SYL and the 1984 Sikh killings as top poll issues. He would have never imagined that the Congress would do this for him. The BJP too is stirring emotions over 1984 for some political benefit in 2017.    
Why the Congress has chosen Kamal Nath for a political suicide is inexplicable. The veteran Congressman may not be legally indicted or charged, but in the Sikh perception he is not innocent. Therefore, to hand over charge of the party affairs in a poll-bound state to such a man amounts to undoing all the hard work that Team Amarinder is doing. AAP leader Kejriwal has already put the Captain on the spot by asking him if he would give Kamal Nath a clean chit. Badal too immediately grabbed the godsent opportunity and issued a statement describing Kamal Nath’s choice as a “brazen act of insensitivity towards Sikhs”. With the kind of advisers it has, the Congress needs no real opponents to lose an election. It excels in self-damage.

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ਰਾਜ ਸਭਾ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਸ਼ਣ ਰੋਕਣ ਲਈ ਕਹਿੰਦੇ ਹੋਏ ਰਾਣਾ ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ।-ਫੋਟੋ: ਮਲਕੀਅਤ ਸਿੰਘ
ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਦਿੱਤੇ ਰੋਸ ਧਰਨੇ ’ਚ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਲੀਡਰਸ਼ਿਪ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਇਕਜੁਟਤਾ ਦਿਖਾਉਣ ਦੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਯਤਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਬਾਵਜੂਦ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਧੜੇ ਨੇ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਧੜੇ ਨੂੰ ਨੁੱਕਰੇ ਲਾਉਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਕਸਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਛੱਡੀ। ਬਾਜਵਾ ਖੇਮੇ ਦੇ ਕਾਂਗਰਸੀ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੀਵੀਆਈਪੀਜ਼ ਵਾਲੀ ਥਾਂ ਜਾਣ ਤੋਂ ਰੋਕਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੇ ਖਾਸਮਖਾਸ ਤੇ ਸਟੇਜ ਸੰਚਾਲਕ ਰਾਣਾ ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇ ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਸ਼ਣ ਵਿਚਾਲੇ ਹੀ ਰੋਕਣ ਲਈ ਆਖ ਦਿੱਤਾ। ਬਹੁਤੇ ਆਗੂ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਮੁਲਾਜ਼ਮਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਬਹਿਸ ਕਰਨ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਵੀਵੀਆਈਪੀਜ਼ ਵਾਲੀ ਥਾਂ ਪੁੱਜੇ। ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਮੁਲਾਜ਼ਮਾਂ ਦਾ ਕਹਿਣਾ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਇਸ ਖ਼ਾਸ ਥਾਂ ’ਤੇ ਬੈਠਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਦੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਦਾ ਨਾਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੀ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਹੀ ਉਥੇ ਜਾਣ ਤੋਂ ਰੋਕਿਆ ਗਿਆ।
ਕੈਪਟਨ ਦੇ ਵਿਰੋਧੀ ਧੜੇ ’ਚ ਰਹੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੇ ਸਕੱਤਰ ਵਰਿੰਦਰ ਸ਼ਰਮਾ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਗੱਲ ਦੀ ਪੁਸ਼ਟੀ ਕੀਤੀ ਕਿ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੀਵੀਆਈਪੀ ਕੌਰੀਡੋਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਜਾਣ ਤੋਂ ਰੋਕਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਤੇ ਬੜੀ ਮੁਸ਼ਕਲ ਨਾਲ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਆਪਣਾ ਦਾਖ਼ਲਾ ਯਕੀਨੀ ਬਣਾਇਆ। ਇਸੇ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਵਿਰੋਧੀ ਧੜੇ ਦੇ ਇੱਕ ਹੋਰ ਆਗੂ ਅਨਿਲ ਦੱਤਾ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆ ਕਰਮੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਰੋਕਿਆ। ਉਹ ਲੰਬਾ ਸਮਾਂ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਮੁਲਾਜ਼ਮਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਬਹਿਸ ਕਰਦੇ ਰਹੇ ਤੇ ਆਖ਼ਰ ਧੱਕੇ ਨਾਲ ਉਹ ਇਸ ਕੌਰੀਡੋਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਾਖ਼ਲ ਹੋਏ। ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ ਮਹਿਲਾ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਜਸਲੀਨ ਸੇਠੀ ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਅੱਗੇ ਵਧਣ ਤੋਂ ਰੋਕਿਆ ਗਿਆ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਮਹਿਲਾ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਕਿੱਟੂ ਗਰੇਵਾਲ ਨੇ ਜੱਦੋਜਹਿਦ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਅੰਦਰ ਲੰਘਾਇਆ।  ਧਰਨੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹੋਏ ਰਾਜ ਸਭਾ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਤੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੇ ਸਾਬਕਾ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਨੇ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਾਲ ਹੱਥ ਤਾਂ ਜ਼ਰੂਰ ਮਿਲਾਇਆ ਪਰ ਕੋਈ ਗੱਲਬਾਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਕੀਤੀ। ਜਦੋਂ ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਧਰਨੇ ਨੂੰ ਸੰਬੋਧਨ ਕਰ ਰਹੇ ਸਨ ਤਾਂ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਹੀ ਉੱਠ ਕੇ ਚਲੇ ਗਏ। ਸ੍ਰੀ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਦਾ ਭਾਸ਼ਣ ਲੰਬਾ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਦੇਖ ਕੇ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੇ ਖਾਸਮਖਾਸ ਤੇ ਸਟੇਜ ਸੰਚਾਲਕ ਰਾਣਾ ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੇ ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਸ਼ਣ ਵਿਚਾਲੇ ਹੀ ਰੋਕਣ ਲਈ ਆਖ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਪਰ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਬਾਜਵਾ ਆਪਣੀ ਪੂਰੀ ਗੱਲ ਕਹਿਣ ’ਤੇ ਅੜ ਗਏ। ਉਹ ਕਹਿਣ ਲੱਗੇ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਤਾਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਮਨ ਦੀਆਂ ਗੱਲਾਂ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਹੀ ਹਟਣਗੇ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੇ ਰਾਣਾ ਗੁਰਜੀਤ ਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਵੀ ਕਹਿ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਕਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਰਾਣਾ ਨੇ ਤਾਂ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਅਜਿਹਾ ਹੀ ਕਰਨੀ ਸੀ।
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Posted On June - 13 - 2016
ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਦੀ ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਹਾਈਕਮਾਂਡ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਸੀਨੀਅਰ ਆਗੂ ਕਮਲ ਨਾਥ ਨੂੰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਮਾਮਲਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਇੰਚਾਰਜ ਨਿਯੁਕਤ ਕਰਨ ਨਾਲ ਸੂਬੇ ਦੀ ਸਿਆਸਤ ਗਰਮਾ ਗਈ ਹੈ। ਕਮਲ ਨਾਥ ਦਾ ਨਾਂ 1984 ਦੇ ਸਿੱਖ ਕਤਲੇਆਮ ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜਦਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਪਹਿਲੀ ਨਵੰਬਰ 1984 ਨੂੰ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਦੇ ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਰਕਾਬਗੰਜ ਉੱਤੇ ਦੰਗਾਕਾਰੀਆਂ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ ਹਮਲੇ ਦੀ ਅਗਵਾਈ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਦੋਸ਼ ਲਗਦਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਨਾਨਾਵਟੀ ਕਮਿਸ਼ਨ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ ਦਿੱਲੀ ਪੁਲੀਸ ਦੇ ਦੋ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀ ਅਤੇ ਇੱਕ ਪੱਤਰਕਾਰ ਸੰਜੇ ਸੂਰੀ ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੋਸ਼ਾਂ ਦੀ ਪੁਸ਼ਟੀ ਕਰ ਚੁੱਕੇ ਹਨ ਭਾਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਸਬੂਤਾਂ ਦੀ ਘਾਟ ਕਾਰਨ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਮੁਕੱਦਮਾ ਅਜੇ ਤਕ ਦਰਜ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੋਇਆ। ਇਸੇ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੇ ਮਾਮਲਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਇੰਚਾਰਜ ਨਿਯੁਕਤ ਕਰਨ ’ਤੇ ਤਿੱਖਾ ਪ੍ਰਤੀਕਰਮ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ। ਸ਼੍ਰੋਮਣੀ ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ ਅਤੇ ਆਮ ਆਦਮੀ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਨੇ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਲੀਡਰਸ਼ਿਪ ਨੂੰ ਕਰੜੇ ਹੱਥੀਂ ਲੈਂਦਿਆਂ ਇਸ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਸਿੱਖਾਂ ਦੇ ਜ਼ਖ਼ਮਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਮੁੜ ਹਰੇ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲੀ ਕਾਰਵਾਈ ਕਰਾਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਦੂਜੇ ਪਾਸੇ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਮੇਤ ਹੋਰ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਦਾ ਸਵਾਗਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਢਿੱਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਦਿਖਾਈ।
ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਹਾਈਕਮਾਂਡ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕਮਲ ਨਾਥ ਨੂੰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਮਾਮਲਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਇੰਚਾਰਜ ਨਿਯੁਕਤ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਕਾਰਵਾਈ ਤੋਂ ਜਾਪਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਹ ਗ਼ਲਤੀ ਦਰ ਗ਼ਲਤੀ ਕਰਨ ਦੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਵਰਤਾਰੇ ਤੋਂ ਮੁਕਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੋ ਰਹੀ। ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ ਬੁਰੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਆਪਸੀ ਫੁੱਟ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਉੱਤੇ ਇਹ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਸੂਬਾਈ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ ਦੀਆਂ ਆਗਾਮੀ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਮੌਕੇ ਭਾਰੂ ਹੋ ਸਕਦੀ ਹੈ। ਸੱਤਾਧਾਰੀ ਧਿਰ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਇਸ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਸੂਬੇ ਦੇ ਬਹੁਗਿਣਤੀ ਸਿੱਖ ਵੋਟਰਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਭਾਵਨਾਵਾਂ ਦਾ ਲਾਹਾ ਲਿਆ ਜਾਣਾ ਸੁਭਾਵਿਕ ਹੈ, ਉੱਥੇ ਇਹ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ ਪ੍ਰਾਪੇਗੰਡੇ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਮੁੱਦਾ ਵੀ ਬਣ ਸਕਦੀ ਹੈ। ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਹਾਈਕਮਾਂਡ ਨੇ ਇਹ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਭਾਵੇਂ ਸੂਬਾਈ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ ਦੀਆਂ ਆਗਾਮੀ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੱਦੇਨਜ਼ਰ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਨੂੰ ਮਜ਼ਬੂਤ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਏ ਵਿਵਾਦ ਨਾਲ ਇਹ ਉਲਟਾ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਹੋਰ ਕਮਜ਼ੋਰ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਸਬੱਬ ਬਣਦੀ ਜਾਪਦੀ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਲੰਮਾ ਸਮਾਂ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨਗੀ ਦੇ ਮਾਮਲੇ ਨੂੰ ਲਮਕਾ ਕੇ ਰੱਖਣ ਅਤੇ ਮੁੱਖ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਦੇ ਅਹੁਦੇ ਲਈ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰ ਦਾ ਨਾਂ ਐਲਾਨਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੁਣ ਤਕ ਦੀ ਜੱਕੋਤਕੀ ਵੀ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਹਾਈਕਮਾਂਡ ਦੀ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਪ੍ਰਤੀ ਗ਼ੈਰ-ਸੰਜੀਦਗੀ ਦਾ ਸੰਕੇਤ ਦੇ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ।
ਸੂਬਾਈ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ ਚੋਣਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੱਦੇਨਜ਼ਰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ ਸਿਆਸੀ ਚੋਣ ਅਖਾੜਾ ਭਖ਼ ਚੁੱਕਿਆ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਕੌਮੀ ਅਤੇ ਸੂਬਾਈ ਲੀਡਰਸ਼ਿਪ ਨਿੱਤ ਨਵੇਂ ਵਿਵਾਦਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਜਨਮ ਦੇ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ। ਕਈ ਸੀਨੀਅਰ ਆਗੂ ਪਾਰਟੀ ਨੂੰ ਅਲਵਿਦਾ ਕਹਿ ਗਏ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਕੁਝ ਇੱਕ ਦੂਜੇ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ ਆਹਮੋ-ਸਾਹਮਣੇ ਖੜ੍ਹੇ ਦਿਖਾਈ ਦੇ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ। ਪਾਰਟੀ ਹਾਈਕਮਾਂਡ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕਮਲ ਨਾਥ ਦੀ ਨਿਯੁਕਤੀ ਨੇ ਫ਼ਿਲਮ ‘ਉੜਤਾ ਪੰਜਾਬ’ ਦੇ ਮੁੱਦੇ ’ਤੇ ਵਿਵਾਦਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਘਿਰੀ ਸੱਤਾਧਾਰੀ ਧਿਰ ਸ਼੍ਰੋਮਣੀ ਅਕਾਲੀ ਦਲ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਕੇਵਲ ਰਾਹਤ ਹੀ ਪਹੁੰਚਾਈ ਹੈ ਬਲਕਿ ਆਪਣੇ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ ਪ੍ਰਚਾਰ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਮੁੱਦਾ ਵੀ ਦੇ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਨਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ ਹਾਸ਼ੀਏ ’ਤੇ ਜਾ ਚੁੱਕੀ ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਹਾਲਤ ਹੋਰ ਵੀ ਤਰਸਯੋਗ ਬਣਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਤੀਤ ਹੋ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ। ਕੈਪਟਨ ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਨੂੰ ਮੁੱਖ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਦੇ ਅਹੁਦੇ ਦਾ ਉਮੀਦਵਾਰ ਨਾ ਐਲਾਨਣ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨਗੀ ਦੀ ਕਮਾਨ  ਸੌਂਪਣ ਦਾ ਵੀ ਬਹੁਤਾ ਲਾਹਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਮਿਲ ਸਕਿਆ। ਪਾਰਟੀ ਸਫ਼ਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਸੂਬਾਈ ਆਗੂਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਸਾਖ਼ ਪ੍ਰਮਾਣਿਤ ਨੇਤਾ ਵਾਲੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਬਣ ਸਕੀ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੀ ਹਾਜ਼ਰੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੱਡੇ ਤੋਂ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਛੋਟੇ ਆਗੂ ਇੱਕ ਦੂਜੇ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ ਨਾ ਕੇਵਲ ਸ਼ਬਦੀ ਬਾਣ ਹੀ ਚਲਾ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ ਬਲਕਿ ਗੁੱਥਮਗੁੱਥਾ ਵੀ ਹੋ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ। ਇਸ ਸਥਿਤੀ ਵਿੱਚ  ਪ੍ਰਦੇਸ਼ ਕਾਂਗਰਸ ਦੀ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਹੀ ਪਤਲੀ ਹਾਲਤ ਹੋਰ ਨਾਜ਼ੁਕ ਹੋਣ ਤੋਂ ਇਨਕਾਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾ ਸਕਦਾ।

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