Accusing Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal of playing politics by seeking ‘Bharat Ratna’ for Bhagat Singh, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh said Bhagat Singh’s stature was too big for honours like Bharat Ratna.
“Bhagat Singh’s stature was too big for awards and honours like Bharat Ratna. Bhagat Singh is the greatest Bharat Ratna himself and he lives in every Indian’s heart”, Capt Singh said in his address while paying tributes to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev at a function organised to commemorate their martyrdom day.
Decrying the “politics” being played by certain vested interests in Bhagat Singh’s name, he said, the Deputy Chief Minister was only doing politics by demanding Bharat Ratna for Bhagat Singh.
“But still it is the first sensible thing he has ever suggested in his life after destroying an entire generation of youth and farmers in the state by drugs and the debt”, he alleged while taking a dig at Mr. Sukhbir Badal’s demand.
“Better think of the youth who have been trapped in the vicious web of drugs being supplied with your patronage and the farmers caught in the debts”, he said asking Badal Jr. to stop playing politics in the name of great martyrs.
However, Lok Sabha MP from Amritsar said he would welcome if Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were honoured with country’s greatest civilian award.
Sukhbir in Nawanshahr said his party would soon write to the Centre to award Bhagat Singh ‘Bharat Ratna’.
