After Modi, Akalis corner Amarinder over 'skipping' Jallianwala Bagh event
A war of words broke out between Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on social media Sunday over the former's absence from an official event marking the Jallianwala Bagh massacre's centenary.
The event was organised in Amritsar on Saturday by the Centre and was attended by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
Singh has alleged that the central government deliberately chose to hold a "parallel event" instead of supporting the initiatives and programmes of the state government.
At a poll rally on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, a town located on Punjab's border, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Singh boycotted the function because he was busy in "Congress parivar's bhakti (appeasing the Gandhi family)".
After Modi's remarks, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal also targeted the Punjab chief minister over the issue.
"Shocked at @ capt_amarinder's refusal to join the country in paying tributes to Jallianwala ...