Badal asked to clarify stand on autonomy

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 29. The president of the Punjab unit of the Congress(I), Capt. Amrinder Singh, while strongly condemning the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, for making the State Assembly to vote in favour of the autonomy resolution, has asked the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, to clarify his position on the issue.

Talking to presspersons, Capt. Amrinder sought clarification from Mr. Badal on three accounts. He said that the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has been seeking the implementation of the Anandpur Sahib resolution, which was similar to the resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.

He said both resolutions, while demanding autonomy for the States, seek charge of total governance except for the departments of Defence, Railways, Foreign Affairs and Currency.

Capt. Amrinder Singh said that immediately after the autonomy resolution was passed by the Assembly of the neighbouring State, the president of a breakaway faction of the ruling party, the All India Shiromani Akali Dal (AISAD), Mr. Gurcharan Singh Tohra, had demanded from the Punjab Chief Minister that a similar resolution should also be passed by the State Legislature as well.

He was intrigued that Mr. Badal had not replied to the poser from Mr. Tohra.

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