Re: Clergy faces flak for threat to summon PM
PM can’t be summoned to Akal Takht: Amarinder Singh
5 September 2011
press trust of india
Hoshiarpur, 5 Sept: Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Mr Amarinder Singh today said the Prime Minister could not be summoned to the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism.
“With all respect to the sanctity and authority of Akal Takht Sahib, the Prime Minister cannot be summoned there,” he told reporters here.
The Punjab Congress chief said he had no idea as to who had demanded or suggested summoning the Prime Minister to the Akal Takht.
But, he totally disagreed with any such idea, he said.
“A Prime Minister does not belong to any religion as he represents the people of the country. If there is any such idea there should be a rethinking on that,” the Congress leader said.
To a question, Mr Amarinder said the SAD government in Punjab had received generous grants from the UPA government and if it was surviving it was due to the central assistance only.
Citing an example, he said during his tenure as chief minister, the Centre used to provide 10,000 tonnes of grains per year for people living below the poverty line.
The state was now getting 10,000 tonnes every month ~12 times more that what it had received from the Centre during the Congress regime, he said.
http://thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=382275&catid=36
PM can’t be summoned to Akal Takht: Amarinder Singh
5 September 2011
press trust of india
Hoshiarpur, 5 Sept: Former Punjab chief minister and senior Congress leader Mr Amarinder Singh today said the Prime Minister could not be summoned to the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism.
“With all respect to the sanctity and authority of Akal Takht Sahib, the Prime Minister cannot be summoned there,” he told reporters here.
The Punjab Congress chief said he had no idea as to who had demanded or suggested summoning the Prime Minister to the Akal Takht.
But, he totally disagreed with any such idea, he said.
“A Prime Minister does not belong to any religion as he represents the people of the country. If there is any such idea there should be a rethinking on that,” the Congress leader said.
To a question, Mr Amarinder said the SAD government in Punjab had received generous grants from the UPA government and if it was surviving it was due to the central assistance only.
Citing an example, he said during his tenure as chief minister, the Centre used to provide 10,000 tonnes of grains per year for people living below the poverty line.
The state was now getting 10,000 tonnes every month ~12 times more that what it had received from the Centre during the Congress regime, he said.
http://thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=382275&catid=36
