JALANDHAR: Various Sikh organizations have announced that memorandums would be submitted by Sikh groups across the state to all the Congress MLAs to ask them to urge chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to table the Justice Ranjit Commission report in a special session of state assembly and to implement it in letter and spirit. Apart from seeking a clear statement from CM on the issue of solving of Bargari sacrilege case they also demanded that Sirsa Dera chief and his close aides in the case should also be questioned and investigated as the conspiracy of sacrilege could not have been hatched at lower level.Addressing a joint press conference here on Friday, Sikhs For Equality director Sukhdev Singh, in the presence of leaders of Sikh Talmel Committee and other half dozen Sikh groups from the region, said that before polls Captain Amarinder Singh and Congress made Bargari sacrilege and Behbal Kalaan biggest issues but now the state government appeared to be dragging its feet back. "It is over a month that the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission handed over the report to the CM but it appears that state government wants to give lee way to former CM and deputy CM and police officers in the case. Handing over the probe to CBI is a delaying tactic which also appears to be aimed at reducing the heat of the issue on Badals," he said.Sikh Talmel Committee leader Harpal Singh Chadha said that they would be coordinating with Sikh groups across the state and latter would be meeting the Congress MLAs in their respective constituencies “to remind them what their party and CM had promised before polls”.Sukhdev and Harpal claimed that it was due to Bargari sacrilege and Behbal Kalaan firing issues that SAD witnessed its worst performance in the last 50 years. “Congress should not forget that it won from most of the Panthic and rural constituencies in the state which played crucial role for getting majority in the assembly but if Congress government would also act like previous SAD-BJP government on the issue then it would also face similar fate in the next elections,” they said.They demanded that police officials identified by the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission holding them responsible for unprovoked firing should be named in the FIR. “The current regime should not repeat what Badal government did – registering case against unidentified cops,” they said, adding that former DGP Sumedh Saini should also be booked for firing. If Punjab Police could solve the sacrilege case within days of start of Morcha at Bargari, it is clear that earlier police officials were stopped from reaching to the accused by the previous regime and then new regime also did not act on its own,” they said.The Sikh groups alleged that the lackadaisical attitude of the state government reflected that in place of acting on merits efforts were on to save Badals, police officials and even Sirsa Dera chief in the case.

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