This new row caused by a sketch on social media comes a week after Mali claimed that Kashmir was a separate country and India and Pakistan were illegal occupants
Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s advisor Malvinder Singh Mali has sparked off a controversy by posting a controversial sketch of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in which she can be seen standing near a heap of human skulls, holding a gun with a skull hanging on its muzzle.
This comes a week after Mali had posted on Twitter claiming that Kashmir was a separate country and India and Pakistan were illegal occupants and that Captain Amrinder Singh is responsible for creating communal tensions in Punjab.
Amrinder Singh did not receive these recent posts well and on Sunday warned Navjot Singh Sidhu’s advisors against using ‘atrocious and ill-conceived comments that were potentially dangerous to the peace and stability of the state and the country’.
Amarinder Singh also urged Sidhu’s advisors to give advice to the PPCC president and not comment on matters of which they clearly had little or no knowledge, and had no understanding of the implications, India today reported.
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The Sketch which served as the cover page of the June 1989 issue of a Punjabi magazine titled ‘Jantak Paigam ( Public Message)’ comes with a tagline ‘Every repression is defeated’ and was posted by Mali on his Facebook page.
The timing of the post was severely criticized by many opposition parties. BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh was of the opinion that Mali’s post has exposed the ‘Congress’s heinous game plan during the eighties’.
“The cat is out of the bag after PCC President Navjot Singh Sidhu’s advisor Malvinder Singh Mali put up a Facebook post showing former prime minister Indira Gandhi with a gun indicating how the Sikhs were targeted in 1984,” Tarun Chugh was quoted saying in a report by India Today.
He also questioned if the post was uploaded by Mali upon the insistence of Sidhu.
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