Won’t allow forces inimical to peace succeed: CM Badal

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said he would not allow to succeed any force inimical to the state’s progress and disrupt its hard-earned peace.

“With their vested interests, some people are actively working to bring black days back in the state but I assure you that they will not succeed,” Badal said while addressing a gathering here after installing Bhagwan Parshuram Chair for Indian literature and Culture at Punjabi University here.

He said in the past, the state had suffered a lot due to such conspiracies and the SAD-BJP government would foil any designs detrimental to the state’s peace and progress.

Badal asked the media and common public to join hands to ensure peace and communal brotherhood in the state and said division on religious lines must be avoided and it should not be misconstrued as communalism.

Asking people to refrain from identifying gurus, saints, and seers on communal lines as “they belong to all humanity” he said, people must overcome the parochial considerations of caste, colour and creed to celebrate all religious functions.