"Kamal Nath was reluctant to accept this post because of his guilty conscience in massacre of thousands of innocent Sikhs," Mr Badal claimed on the sidelines of Sangat Darshan programme in Malout Assembly segment in Muktsar today.
Kamal Nath had no role at all during the 1984 (anti-Sikh) riots.
One person was killed, and six others injured after a clash between two groups in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur today over a morphed photo of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, which was shared on WhatsApp.
In what could turn out an embarrassment for the Congress party, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday cleared a probe against former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the alleged Rs 400 crore water tanker scam.
A 23-year-old Assamese man has been arrested in the rape-murder of a Dalit woman law student in Kerala that grabbed national headlines for the sheer brutality of the April 28 crime and became a hot political issue during the state assembly elections.
A day after he resigned as general secretary incharge of poll-bound Punjab, Congress leader Kamal Nath came under fresh attack from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which demanded a probe against him for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.