The BJP cannot get over its animosity with former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. They did not allow parliament to function during his term, stooped low to call him names, and are now happily tweeting about a movie, “The Accidental Prime Minister”, based on his life by his former media adviser Sanjaya Baru.  Paramjit Singh Sarna reacts and dubs it as a classical political tool to win elections.

Former DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna, in a media statement has hit out the Bharatiya Janta Party for promoting the movie “The Accidental Prime Minister” on the life and times of Manmohan Singh with the ulterior motive of extracting political benefit in the forthcoming parliamentary elections by demeaning and denigrating the former bureaucrat-turned Prime Minister, his Indian National Congress party and other Congress leaders.

Manmohan Singh was a rare Sikh face, who lent credence to the Congress party within Sikh circles while the Congress party was always seen as inimical to the Sikhs, particularly after the deliberate events of 1984 onwards in the Punjab.

There is no doubt that when he became Prime Minister of India, accidentally, because the Congress had very little choice, the Sikhs also felt a sense of joy while the rest of India and the Indian Media was overly joyful at the appointment of one of the most honest persons in the public life this country.

There is also no doubt that the Bharatiya Janta Party was unable to digest this development, particularly the RSS, as even though a Congress person, “to see a Sikh at the helm of affairs of the country” was simply unacceptable to them.

“Unable to fathom the ten-year rule of India’s first Sikh PM, the BJP has sponsored The Accidental Prime Minister to demean a world-class economist respected highly for his leadership by one and all including the former US President Barack Obama,” said Paramjit Singh Sarna of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi).

No Sikh can forget the proud moment when US President Barrack Obama hosted the Indian prime minister during his first state visit in 2009”, he added.

The respect India’s first Sikh prime minister received for his capabilities from the international community has never been acceptable to Nagpur, the SADD president noted. “The RSS and its political wing, the BJP and their yes-men in the Badal party left no opportunity to demean Dr Singh. Together, they could never fathom how a Sikh rose to the highest office of government in a country with two percent of Sikh population,” said Paramjit Singh Sarna.

He alleged that prior to the polls in 2014, the biographical book by his media advisor Sanjay Baru was released and now the movie based on the book as a well-planned operation prior to the 2019 general elections.

He strongly stated that the book too was a bundle of lies and there is a clear design to malign the image of a Sikh prime minister with tons of lies about his personality and about his ties with the Congress leadership, Sarna observed.

Not taking lightly the portrayal of Dr Manmohan Singh, Sarna said that “it is sad that actor Anupam Kher mocks the Sikh prime minister who ended India’s nuclear apartheid by signing a historic civil-nuclear-energy deal with the United States.”

Though Anupam Kher in his interaction with the media has said that he studied tonnes of footage to imbibe Manmohan Singh’s characteristics, the trailer shows the veteran actor whose wife Kiran Kher is a BJP MP from Chandigarh and who does not hide his admiration of Narendra Modi, the gait and style of Manmohan Singh is a clear caricature of the former Prime Minister.

Dismissing the argument of the Congress party regarding the timing of the film -The Accidental Prime Minister, actor Anupam Kher has said that he has no political ambitions and that this was one of the most challenging roles he has done in his film career spanning more than 500 movies.

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The Delhi Akali Dal leader rued the fact that, “Development was the hallmark of Dr Singh’s rule. Today, lynchings, lies, Hindu-Muslim tensions, triple talaq and economic disasters like demonetisation and a shoddy GST are crippling the country.”