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Badal arrest: BJP adopts cautious policy

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI DEC. 1. With Prakash Singh Badal, Shiromani Akali Dal leader, remanded to judicial custody today by a court in a disproportionate assets case against him, the BJP adopted a cautious policy. "We do not want to comment on a court procedure," were the words of the party spokesperson, Prakash Javadekar.

Mr. Badal is now the second NDA leader in custody — Mr. Vaiko of the MDMK has been in judicial custody for over a year, charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

Although the BJP is still talking about the "revenge politics" of the Congress Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amrinder Singh, it distanced itself a bit from the Badal affair. Party leaders said they were only questioning the Congress "motive" in hounding the Akali leader. "We are sure the truth will come out before the court,'' the party spokesman said.

There were no loud protests that the Badal family was innocent, unlike in the Judev affair relating to the party's own leader from Chhattisgarh where it went out of its way to denounce the entire videotape showing the former Union Minister, Dilip Singh Judev, accepting cash as "fabricated" and the result of a "Congress conspiracy."

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