Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday threatened to take to the streets against the failures of the Punjab Government to make payment to sugarcane farmers and checking increasing crime in the state.
Capt. Amarinder also announced to lead a dharna in Badal village to protest against the multi-crore recruitment scam involving one of the close aides of the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, on June 18.Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, the PCC president announced that he will be staging a dharna on June 8 at Dinanagar in Gurdaspur to protest against the pending payment of the sugarcane farmers amounting to over Rs 200 crores. It will be followed by another dharna on June 13 at Jalandhar against the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
Referring to Dayal Singh Kolianwali, allegedly a close aid of Badal, Capt Amarinder said, he was proving to be another Ravi Sidhu, the disgraced former chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission who was jailed and sentenced for corruption in the recruitments.
The former Chief Minister said, it was clear that Kolianwali had the patronage of the Chief Minister.
Expressing his concern on the issue of law and order, Capt Amarinder Singh said Punjab had turned into the gang-lands. And even after passage of months, there was no clue of the murderers of the Namdhari Mata. He also raised question on no arrests in the matter of attack on Sant Ranjit Singh Dhandrianwale.
He also supported the demand for CBI probe into the attack on Sant Dhandrianwale.
Capt Amarinder Singh, who is also president of the All India Jat Maha Sabha made an appeal for peace during the proposed strike for the Jat reservation in Haryana.
On the occasion 62 sarpanchs belonging to the Aklai Dal and the BJP from Fazilka area joined the party in presence of Capt Amarinder.