Maintaining that there is complete “jungle raj” in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to handover “home portfolio” to someone more dedicated than him.
“The way religious leaders and preachers have been continuously assaulted and murdered in Punjab over a period of time, it seems that the law and order machinery in Punjab has completely collapsed,” said AAP’s Punjab unit president Bhagwant Mann.
Taking serious view of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, AAP’s Punjab unit chief Mann and co-president Aman Arora, in a joint statement, said that Capt Amarinder should immediately handover the portfolio for Home Affairs and Justice to someone more dedicated and efficient from his party.
“We need a full-fledged home minister in Punjab who is committed and dedicated to bring deteriorating law and order situation of the under control...unlike Capt Amarinder who seem to have other priorities in life than focusing on effective administration in Punjab,” they said.
They said the CBI under BJP’s Narendra Modi government has not been able to make any headway to pinpoint the culprits of series of sacrilege incidents occurred during the SAD-BJP regime.
“The murder of priest Sultan Masih in ludhiana is yet another attempt to vitiate the hard earned peace of Punjab and to create communal wedge in the civil society,” they said.
Making an appeal to the people of Punjab, AAP leaders said they should continue to maintain peace and brotherhood in the society and should not play into the hands of anti-national and anti-social elements which have been trying hard to achieve their nefarious designs.