Chandumajra trying to polarise voters: Tewari

Ropar, May 1

Congress Anandpur Sahib candidate Manish Tewari, today alleged that SAD nominee Prem Singh Chandumajra was trying to play sectarian politics and polarise people along communal lines.
“Chandumajra is the ideological cousin of Sadhvi Pragya as both have a similar past and it is not surprising that both candidates belong to the same Akali-BJP alliance,” he said. He alleged that Chandumajra was associated with militants in the past and “he has not come out of the 1980s’ mindset, when he fiddled with militancy and was jailed for it, and that is the reason he is continuously trying to divide people along communal lines”.

Refuting the allegations, Chandumajra said he would sue Tewari for portraying him as a terrorist. He alleged that Tewari was issuing such statements as he was ignorant about the meaning of Panth. “Panthic refers to brotherhood among all irrespective of caste and creed,” he said.
Terming it a false propaganda, Chandumajra claimed that the Congress had played the terrorism card earlier also, portraying SAD leaders as terrorists, but never succeeded in its nefarious designs.

Many Akali leaders, including the then SAD president Harchand Singh Longowal, had sacrificed their lives for opposing terrorism in the state, he said, adding that he had gone to jail only once in his life and that too for opposing the Emergency imposed by the Congress in 1975.