Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday said the SAD-BJP alliance Government was making all-out efforts, within the parameters of the law, to ensure release of Sikh prisoners, who were languishing in jails across the country after having completed their sentences.
Speaking on the side lines of a thanksgiving tour in Dhuri Assembly segment, Badal said the State Government had been making persistent efforts to ensure release of such prisoners, who were overstaying in jails after having completed their sentences.
He said this was a sensitive issue and the State Government was making all-out efforts to deal with the situation arising out of it in an apt manner.
The Chief Minister exhorted the people to properly understand the matter and refrain from getting swayed away by provocations on this emotive issue without verifying the facts. law and order would be maintained at every cost and no one would be allowed to disturb the hard-earned peace of the State, he added.
He said his Government was firmly committed to maintaining peace and communal harmony in the State for which every necessary action was being taken.
Havoc created by Ghaggar
On the havoc created in the State due to Ghaggar river, the Chief Minister said the State Government was making concerted efforts to ensure that this grave problem was solved in a year. Badal said he had been racking up this issue with the Union Government for its early resolution, adding that half of the work of channelization of this river has already been completed. He said they would again raise this issue with the Centre to ensure that this project was completed in the coming year so that people could be saved from scourge of Ghaggar’s water.
Capt’s allegation
Badal said the allegations of former Chief Minister and lok Sabha MP Capt Amarinder Singh against him and the State Government were “baseless” and were “far away from truth”.
“Capt Amarinder Singh is habitual of misleading the people by making false claims. The allegations of lok Sabha MP against me and the State Government are baseless and are far away from truth,” he said. “Captain had been levelling such allegations since long but they were totally irrelevant,” Badal claimed.