Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said Punjab’s radical leader, self-proclaimed Khalistani Amritpal Singh speaks in the language of Rahul Gandhi. Congress and its leaders should apologise for using “divisive language”, the chief minister, a long-term Congressman said, referring to the ‘sanctity of Akhand Bharat’. “See who speaks the language of Rahul Gandhi. Amritpal Singh, who stormed a police station in Amritsar in a brazen act of defiance, is imitating his words,” Himanta tweeted in a fresh attack on the Congress, a day after Assam Police arrested Congress leader Pawan Khera for his ‘Narendra Gautamdas’ jibe at PM Modi.
“There was no Bharat, no India before 1947. It’s a union of states. We must respect the unions. We must respect the states. I don’t agree with the definition of India,” Amritpal Singh said to a television channel.
In a video juxtaposing Amritpal Singh’s statement with Rahul Gandhi’s ‘India is a union of states’ speech in the Lok Sabha, the Assam chief minister drew a parallel between the two and said the Khalistani is imitating Rahul Gandhi’s words.