Chandigarh, November 9
Under the rule of the Aam Aadmi Party, the law-and-order situation in Punjab has completely collapsed, and the state government is making shameless attempts to conceal this grim reality. Punjab BJP State President Kewal Singh Dhillon stated that the international extradition and arrest of fugitives and gangsters hiding abroad is executed through the proactive coordination of the Ministry of External Affairs, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Interpol, and central security networks.
Dhillon remarked that it is laughably absurd that the Punjab Finance Minister is beating drums to claim party credit for actions carried out by central agencies and Indian diplomatic missions, while deliberately turning a blind eye to the horrifying ground reality in Punjab. He noted that the Finance Minister rattled off a lengthy list of crimes committed by these gangsters, which includes the murder of a 12-year-old child and elected public representatives. The AAP government and the Home Minister—a portfolio held by the Chief Minister himself—are entirely responsible for this. The AAP government has completely failed to protect innocent lives and must be held accountable.
Citing the tragic murder of anti-drug crusader Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa, Punjab BJP President Dhillon stated that nothing exposes the alleged complicity of the AAP government more than the fact that those who fight against drugs are gunned down in broad daylight while the administration remains a mute spectator.
Dhillon asked: “In the AAP government’s ‘Badlav’, drug cartels, gangsters, and extortionists operate with complete impunity, while anti-drug warriors like Parvinder Jhota have to pay with their lives. It took a 26-day protest and an autopsy at PGIMER Chandigarh just to get an anti-drug activist cremated. During this, his grieving, elderly father Bapu Bhim Singh was forced to sit on a hunger strike outside the hospital demanding basic action against police officials allegedly in collusion with peddlers. If the government is truly acting against crime, why was an activist murdered on Facebook Live while exposing the illicit sale of narcotics?”
The BJP President further pointed out that under the present AAP regime, Punjab’s jails have turned into five-star operational headquarters for extortionists and gang bosses, from where they run criminal syndicates and even grant media interviews from behind bars.
The BJP demanded that instead of deflecting blame onto others and orchestrating scripted press conferences to take false credit, the AAP government must answer to the people of Punjab why traders, doctors, and ordinary citizens are living under constant terror, and why it has given free rein to the drug-gangster nexus to suffocate the state.
