Punjab: Congress, Akalis hold rallies, Punjab CM says no one will be spared in sacrilege cases 

On a day of two big rallies and a protest, the three main players in Punjab politics - the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) - traded political barbs against one another on Sunday.

The highlight of the day was the ruling Congress holding its political rally in Lambi, the village of SAD senior most leader and five-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and the SAD returning the favour by holding a rally in Patiala town, the home town of Congress Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said that no one whose name figured in an ongoing probe into the 2015 cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib will be spared if they were found involved.

He accused the then SAD-BJP government led by Badal senior for not doing enough to stop the sacrilege incidents.

Amarinder Singh claimed that the then government ordered police firing on peaceful protesters in Bargari, killing two youths.

Meanwhile, the AAP held a protest march on Sunday from Kotkapura town to Bargari village in Faridkot village to protest against incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and the Punjab Police firing in October 2015 on those protesting against the sacrilege incidents.

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar, Ministers and Congress legislators were present at the rally along with thousands of party supporters.

In Patiala, Badal senior and his son and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the Congress had failed to deliver on any of the tall promises of loan waiver to farmers, jobs to every family in Punjab, eradication of drugs and providing mobile phones to youth.

The Akali Dal's 'Jabar Virodh' rally was held to highlight the failures of the Amarinder government and the alleged repression let lose on the Akali Dal and BJP leaders and workers by the Congress government.