Chandigarh, April 4 -- Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday sought a central probe into recent attempts to destabilise peace in Punjab and instigate communal violence by targeting statues of Babsaheb B R Ambedkar as well as temples.
Talking on this subject in parliament, Badal said it was condemnable that the statues of Babasaheb Ambedkar had been targeted three times in the last three months but the Aam Aadmi Party government had failed to either protect them or ensure exemplary punishment for the perpetrators. Asserting that this was being done under a design, she said a bomb was hurled at the Thakurdwara in Amritsar indicating that a wider conspiracy was at work to create a communal divi...