Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MlA and the leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Sukhpal Khaira on Wednesday slammed the failure of Punjab Police to trace the broad daylight political murders taking place in the state.
Khaira, who visited the house of the slain RSS leader Ravinder Gosai at ludhiana to express solidarity with the aggrieved family and offer his condolences, urged the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to pull up his socks and direct the police to solve cases of political murders as top priority and in future prevent such killings.
He also urged him to depoliticize the police and allow it to function without interference from politicians.
Severely condemning Gosai’s broad daylight killing and Police’s utter failure to nab his killers, Khaira said that it was not a first case of political murder in Punjab. “Couple of months back, Sultan Masih, a pastor, was killed similarly by motorcycle assailants but there has been no clue of the killing,” he said.
Khaira recounted the brutal murders of Mata Chand Kaur of Bhaini Sahib, Jagdish Gagneja another RSS leader of Jalandhar, the murderous attack on Sant Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwala, but he said that the police has completely failed to crack any of these crime.
lambasting Capt Amarinder for failing to ensure justice to the two innocent Sikh youth killed in the Bargari police firing - a promise he had made to the people while in opposition, Khaira said that it was sad to note that two years have passed since the killing, but no justice has been rendered to the families of those youth.
He said that the law and order in Punjab today is no better than the 10 years of “jungle-raj” perpetrated by the SAD-BJP. “There have been repeated incidents of political murders during the last six months, but the police is acting as a mute spectator,” he said while blaming Capt Amarinder for pursuing the Badals’ legacy by politicizing the Punjab police for personal whims and fancies.
He said that the Congress Ministers and MlAs has started getting their henchmen posted to plum field postings, who in turn are taking their orders from their political bosses rather than their superior police officers.
The tall claims of industrial investment being made by Capt Amarinder have fallen flat, as no business house would invest in a state like Punjab, where prominent people are being murdered, gang wars taking place and incidents of bank robberies etc are happening daily, he said.