Chandigarh, Oct. 24 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said it was condemnable that after playing a hoax on the farmers of Punjab in league with the central government, chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh was now trying to sell the fraud as an achievement.

In a statement here, the SAD President said it was shameful that even after Capt Amarinder Singh's fraud had been discovered and it had been proved that he had colluded with the centre simply to get the 'rail roko' agitation of the farmer organizations lifted, he was trying to mislead Punjabis by trying to shift the blame of his own failures on others.

Asking the chief minister to come clean and tell Punjabis why he had chosen to legislate on a subject ...