Even as the Punjab Government has now stopped asking people to leave the border areas, Punjab Congress president, Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to explain why the residents of the border areas could not stay back in their homes
when schools were being reopened there.
“You are clearly losing it,” the Captain told Badal, asking, “What is the point in opening the schools when you are forcing people to evacuateIJ”
In a statement issued here, Capt. Amarinder said the state government’s decision to open the schools in the border areas clearly vindicated the Congress stand that the Akali-BJP government was just whipping up war hysteria in the border areas for its political ends.
Questioning the logic behind opening the schools when the residents had already been forcibly evacuated, Captain Amarinder asked, “Who will go to the schools when there is nobody staying in those areas.” In fact, he said, neither schools should have been closed nor evacuations carried out in the first instance.
“Now that the schools have been opened, the government should facilitate the return of the residents also on priority basis,” he demanded.