JALANDHAR: Union Minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley today blamed the Congress policies for militancy in Punjab during the 1980s and hit out at the party's state unit chief Amarinder Singh, terming his 2002-2007 chief ministerial tenure as the "most dishonest and corrupt""Nobody needs to be told how the five-year tenure of the Amarinder government was. "The senior BJP leader also criticised the previous Congress governments and without naming it blamed its policies for the militancy phase which had rocked the state in the 1980s. "If any historian or group analyses, they will know whose policies had led to the dark phase of militancy in Punjab. Who was responsible for the massacres in Punjab and during whose regime was it done in 1984. "The government and the people did not have any relation.

Source: Economic Times January 22, 2017 11:50 UTC