Beant Singh was elected with fewer than a quarter of eligible votes.  Clearly, Punjabi lok did not want him to be the CM. Ehnu vi gaddi charhata si Babbar Akaliyan ne, te hun dekhlayo ah Congress party ehda bott (statue) banona chaundi hai (kithon pagal kathey hoye aa)... and this is why I hate Congress party...

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All Congress groups get together at Beant Singh’s samadhi
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 31
An all-religion prayer meeting held at the samadhi of Beant Singh, the slain former Chief Minister of Punjab, to mark his martyrdom day, had the representation from all groups within the Congress. The Akalis stayed away despite being invited to attend. The prayer meeting was also well attended by Congress workers. The Congress leaders, on their part, expressed anguish at the inordinate delay in the completion of the memorial dedicated to Beant Singh. The work on furnishing of the National Integration Centre, which is being developed at the spot, has begun.

Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal attended the meeting. Though former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh could not make it, his son Raninder Singh represented him. Three former Pradesh Congress presidents, Shamsher Singh Dullo, Mohinder Singh Gill and Varinder Kataria, besides a number of legislators and office-bearers attended the meeting.

Those who paid tributes to the late Beant Singh, included his wife Mata Jaswant Kaur, party working president Mohinder Singh Kaypee, Union minister of state and Chandigarh MP Pawan Bansal, Anti-Terrorist Front chief Maninderjit Singh Bitta, former MP Gurcharan Singh Dadhahur and PPCC general secretary Parminder Singh Pinky. Beant Singh’s son and former minister Tej Prakash Singh and the late leader’s grandson, Gurkirat Singh, thanked the people on the occasion.