Congress Party on Wednesday demanded that Dinanagar incident should be investigated thoroughly by the security agencies besides calling for `50 lakh compensation for Dinanagar martyrs.
“The martyrs of terrorist attack on Dinanagar police station must be honoured by giving Rs 50 lakh compensation each to the bereaved families…If the Moga bus incident and Ropar bus incident victims can be compensated to the tune of Rs 32 lakh and Rs 20 lakh, why the government is giving just Rs 10 lakh to the national martyrs,” said Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa.
He insisted upon the need for police modernisation and withdrawal of police personnel from the VIP duties so that they are available for these kinds of operations round-the-clock.
lambasting on the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who is also the Home Minister, Bajwa said that the seriousness of the Home Minister is evident from the fact that the Punjab is boiling and he is holidaying in Poland.
“He should have immediately cancelled his tour and visited the bereaved families,” said Bajwa, who along with party’s national general secretary Shakeel Ahmed, attended the cremation of slain SP (D) Baljit Singh at Kapurthala.
Bajwa demanded that the son of the martyr should be adjusted as the Deputy Superintendent of Police on compassionate grounds while his two daughters be provided gazetted jobs.
PPCC chief also demanded Rs one lakh each to the injured in the attack. At the same time, he said that the bus driver and the railway employee whose alertness saved so many lives must be suitably honoured.
Condemning the incident, Ahmed expressed apprehension about increase in terrorist activity from across the border. “This is the first case of these terrorists having targeted Punjab. Going by the data recovered from their GPS devices, it is a well-planned operation and as such, the real motives must be investigated,” he said.
He added that this operation was specially designed to create terror in the border state of Punjab. “Central Security Agencies should relook at the border fencing and the loopholes which the terrorist can easily use to infiltrate into the Indian Territory. These should be plugged in immediately,” he said. The two leaders also visited the families of Punjab Home Guards and other martyrs of Dinanagar attack.