Amarinder rejects Harsimrat's claim of misusing official machinery

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday rejected Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal's accusations of the Congress disrupting her poll rallies.

"The anger of the people who had been victimised for 10 years by the Badals and their cronies are now finding voice," Singh said, expressing surprise that Badal, the Shiromani Akali Dal candidate from Bathinda, was facing protests only in some villages and not all over the states.

Badal had on Saturday accused the police of playing into the hands of the ruling Congress, alleging that it refused to take action against some miscreants who tried to disrupt her poll rally in Bathinda.

Singh said it was the "wrath of the people that they were venting against the sufferings meted out by the SAD on them for 10 years".

The fact that Badal was prevented from entering a village in her own constituency only showed that "karma" was catching up fast with the Badals, who had made the people of Punjab shed "tears of blood over their decade-long ...