Thursday, January 15, 2009

Sukhbir May Be Deputy CM of Punjab : Sikh Press

CHANDIGARH: Desperation often helps innovate new ways to achieve the desired. So as desperation grows within the House of Badals about passing on the baton to sonny Sukhbir Singh Badal, the orchestrated campaign also reached its crescendo with many senior Akali leaders coming up with a proposal in the Core Committee of the Akali Dal to make Sukhbir the Deputy Chief Minister.

Top sources in the Akali Dal said it was decided that the issue will be taken up with the alliance partner BJP-RSS and steps will be taken to respect the "sentiments of the senior leaders". Both, CM Parkash Singh Badal as well as son Sukhbir Singh Badal, were present in the Core Committee meeting.

With the kind of objectivity that some newspapers in Punjab have come to have about political shenanigans where Harsimrat Kaur Badal's new found love for environment is considered a deeply felt sentiment rather than political gimmickry, the Ajit newspaper reported after the Core Committee meeting: "Pata lagga hai ke meeting di pardhangi kar rahe S. Parkash Singh Badal iss mauke bhavuk ho gaye ate uhnna bahuti tippni nahi keeti" (It has been learnt that Parkash Singh Badal who was chairing the meeting became very sentimental at this turn of events and he did not make any more comments).

How sweet of a father to be overcome by emotions watching such top notch leaders of the Sikh community pleading with him to let them have his son as their leader!

Of course, on its part, the BJP will not be very happy at projection of Sukhbir as Deputy CM, a rank now ipso facto associated with BJP's Manoranjan Kalia whose mug stares out of all government advertisements even though he is only a Cabinet minister and demands to make him the Deputy CM had fizzled out after some prickly exchanges between top saffron brass and Akali leaders.

The move comes close on the heels of senior Akali Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh underlining the resentment within the Akali Dal over the undue projection of Sukhbir Badal as the only leader who counts. He had done so by connecting Sukhbir's political fate to the outcome of Parliamentary elections which Akalis are likely to find tough going.

Later, Kanwaljit did not press the point beyond a point, a strategy that he has perfected every time he wants to make a point, but clearly the point was either not registered or is now being outscored.

15 January 2009

Sikh Press.


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