Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Sigh Badal on Thursday said the unsavoury incidents in the Punjab Assembly was shocking as he went to see the two injured AAP MlAs, including a woman legislator, in the GMCH hospital.
The two MlAs were allegedly injured in the melee when the watch and ward staff of the Assembly physically removed them from the House on Speaker Rana KP Singh’s orders.
MlAs Sarabjit Kaur Manuka and Manjit Singh were taken out of the Assembly building on stretchers and rushed to hospital.
Manuke fell unconscious after she was allegedly hit in the head during a scuffle with the marshals. Manjit Singh was also injured.
After meeting the MlAs in the hospital, Badal said, "In the 70 years of my public life, I have neither seen, nor experienced, nor even imagined, incidents of such horrific, shameful and repressive nature," The former CM said it was "midsummer madness of the ruling Congress" and an outrage worse than the horrors of the Emergency days.
The SAD patron said Indian democracy has been shamed in broad daylight on the Vidhan Sabha floor after he enquired after the health of the two legislators admitted in hospital. Both the MlAs were apparently in no condition to speak.
Badal also demanded the registration of criminal cases against those who indulged in wanton violence against elected public representatives and those who issued such shameful orders.
"Under the Congress Government, the elected representatives are not safe even in the Vidhan Sabha," he said.
A statement quoting the former CM said, "Badal was shocked to see the two legislators were lying virtually unattended on stretchers, hours after they were admitted. They were being surrounded only by relatives and supporters."
Chandigarh's Director of Health Services Dr. Rakesh Kumar visited the hospital when Badal was there standing near the stretchers on which the AAP legislators were lying.
"Treat them with compassion and respect due to every citizen. What is happening hereIJ They are lying in a state of neglect" Badal told the official.