Majithia gives credit to Badal

Chandigarh: Punjab information and public relations minister Bikram Singh Majithia today thanked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for getting the death sentence of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh stayed indefinitely.

Thanking on behalf of people and residents of Amritsar in particular, Majithia said citizens of the country would remember the role played by Badal in getting Sarabjit back from the gallows.

He said it was Badal who mooted the idea of unanimous resolution and requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as the union external affair ministry to plead the case of Sarabjit effectively.

He said Badal met many MPs and ministers to exert moral pressure on the Pakistani government to reconsider the case of Sarabjit.

Badal invited Ansar Burney, former union human rights minister of Pakistan, to Punjab so that he could meet the family of Sarabjit and know the reality at ground level.