A day after a person was killed by a Mercedes bus owned by the ruling Badal family near Dallewal in Hoshiarpur, leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday demanded that the busses belonging to the ruling Badal Family and the
leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal should be taken off from the roads immediately.
Terming the buses as killer machines, Channi said that a similar incident was reported in Jalandhar also where the staff of the bus belonging to the ruling family resorted to the stone pelting at the bus of other transport company and even later threatening the media correspondent who was covering the incident.
In both the incidents the police is now pressuring the victims to reach compromise or to withdraw their complaints, he alleged.
Channi said there have been incidents where these people have gone scott free after settlement of the cases and threatening the victims and their families.
Moga bus tragedy is such a classic example where two witnesses have already backtracked before the court.
The witnesses have failed to identify the accused staff on board of the orbit bus company. Channi said that further a young girl was killed in Channu in lambi by Deep Transport, a young was killed in Faridkot also by the bus of Deep transport, a scooterist was killed near Behrampur near Ropar toll plaza by the Orbit Transport bus and so on.
Channi demanded an inquiry into the growing transport business of the ruling Badal Family.
"Why the transport business of the Badal Family is flourishing while the state transport in running in losses day by dayIJ" he asked.