Chandigarh, January 30

CM Capt Amarinder Singh today hit out at BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh over his “Army background” remark and called it reprehensible.

“What does the BJP know of Army honour or the grace of the national flag, in which the bodies of our Punjabi brothers come wrapped from the borders every second day?” he said.

Chugh had claimed the CM was insulting his Army background and the grace of Republic Day by supporting farmers over the Red Fort incident. “We in Punjab know the pain of seeing bodies of our sons and brothers, wrapped in the national flag, come home every second day,” he said, adding the BJP had no empathy towards soldiers losing their lives to protect India’s integrity.

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What does the BJP know of Army honour or the grace of the national flag, in which the bodies of our Punjabi brothers come wrapped from the borders every second day? —Capt Amarinder Singh, CM

Neither Chugh nor his party could relate to the anguish of those soldiers on seeing their farmer-fathers and brothers being beaten up and teargassed while fighting for their rights, said the CM, while accusing Chugh of spreading lies. He said the BJP, which had ripped the constitutional fabric apart over the past six years had lost all moral and ethical right to talk of the honour of the R-Day. — TNS