Mukatsar, Jan 14 (Reporter) Senior Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday made a fervent appeal to the people of Punjab to rebond with the SAD even as he vowed that he was ready to sacrifice his life for the Panth as well as peace and progress of the state. Addressing a mammoth gathering at the Maghi Mela here, Badal harked back to history to urge the people to again repose their trust in the SAD in the same manner as the 40 Mukta had been welcomed back into the fold at this historic site. “Today the need of the hour is to strengthen our ‘Kaum’ and the SAD alone can do this. I vow to you that like former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, I will do everything in my capacity for the welfare of the people. Even if I have to sacrifice myself I will do so for the sake of Punjab, Punjabiyat and the Khalsa Panth”, the former SAD President said. In a highly emotive speech, he cautioned the Panth and Punjab against the politics of communal divisiveness and bloodshed of Punjabi youth and asserted he would never flinch from the path of peace and communal harmony shown by the great Gurus, Saints and Seers. Badal asserted he had already owned full responsibility on behalf of the party so that the people of the state could move forward into a future full of hope, peace and prosperity for our youth. “The alternative agenda being offered by some so-called Panthic outfits is to push the state, especially its youth back into the jaws of fratricidal bloodshed and elimination of Sikh youth in fake encounters”. He also made it clear that the leader of a faction which was opening its political shop today had launched a campaign against drugs but his own family member was caught with drugs. “They have also indulged in murders in their area. They want to instigate the youth and foment trouble to meet their own ends. We want to save the future generation, not put it in peril”, the Senior SAD leader added. Badal also appealed to the people that in case his father had committed any mistake he was ready to even own that. Asserting that he was speaking to his family and not an audience, he said a concerted attack had been launched against Parkash Singh Badal and after the latter’s demise against him. “The aim was simple to finish the SAD and the Badal family”...////...