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.”