Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday accused Capt Amarinder Singh led Congress Government for turning a blind eye to the depleting law and order situation in Punjab.
Party’s delegation, comprising MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan, MLA Amarjeet Singh Sandoa and party’s state legal cell head Jastej Singh, met the state Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju regarding attack on AAP Patiala (rural) district president Chetan Singh Joumajra.
AAP’s state unit president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann, in a press statement issued from the party headquarters, said that the law and order situation in the state has gone for a toss. “Not a single day passes when incidents of crime taking place in various parts of the state in broad day light are not reported,” he said.
Mann said that in the recent incident, AAP Patiala (rural) district president Joumajra was attacked by some armed miscreants, firing at him from a close range, leaving him grievously injured.
“Jormajra was attacked at a time when he tried to save a girl from the clutches of a group of goon who had reportedly waylaid her with an ulterior motive of kidnapping her. He had to be rushed to the nearby hospital in a precarious condition by bystanders, where he is undergoing treatment,” said Mann.
Mann said that this is not an isolated case where criminals had their way without the scantest fear of law. Party workers and the who’s who of other walks of life, more often than not, fall prey to the crime-mongers, which is a matter of grave concern.
Sandhwan, after meeting the CEO, said that due to the current government’s laidback attitude, our daughters are not safe enough to walk free. “There are recurring incidents of rape, chain-snatching, stalking, modesty blaze and other misadventures and so on,” he said.
“There has been a spurt in the incidents of violence in the recent past that keep pouring in from various parts of the state. More often than not, police have been found wanting when it comes to the call of duty. Cops, who are supposed to be the first to reach the spot of crime, land last of all. There is no denying the fact that the criminals have a free run under the protective patronage of the police,” he said.
accuses Capt Govt of ‘forcing’ framers to commit suicides
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday severely criticized the Punjab Government’s stern stance over the issue of suicides committed by the farmers owing to heavy debts.
Squarely holding the state government responsible for abetting the farmers to take the extreme step under the scare of debt liabilities, AAP MLA and the Leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema said that not a single day passes when newspapers headlines go without reporting cases of farmer’s suicide.
Cheema said that farmer of Manuke village in Nihalsinghwala segment, head over heels in debt, ended his life by shooting himself. Another distraught farmer from Sohangarh village near Guru Har Sahai committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance.
“Close on the heels, a Bari village farmer in Sherpur and other at Aulakh village in Malout committed suicides between March 9 and 12,” said Cheema adding that the Capt Amarinder Singh Government had taken a U-turn on its promise on a complete loan waiver, leaving them with no obvious choice but to commit suicide.
After visiting the diseased family, AAP MLA Kulwant Singh Pandori said that AAP had raised the issued on the floor of the House during the recently-concluded Budget session of Punjab Assembly. “But, the government had been procrastinating on addressing the farm distress,” he said.
Pandori accused the Union Ministers — Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Vijay Sampla — for maintain a stoic silence over the matter during their five-year old term, thus compounding the problem. “The duo owes an explanation for their dismal role in containing the scourge of suicides in Punjab by impressing upon the Union Government to address agrarian by delivering on the promised farm waiver,” he said.
AAP leader demanded that the Captain Amarinder Singh government should issue white paper on the menace of suicides being committed by the farmers, day in day out. He also urged the Government to come out of its cosy confines and address the issue sooner than later lest it should assume an alarming proportion.
