Chandigarh, November 18
Raising serious concern over the daily killings in the state, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that the Aam Aadmi Party government had completely abdicated its authority and the criminals and gangsters were killing people with audacious impunity.
“While the AAP government is counting its days, we are counting our dead”, Warring said in a statement while referring to daily killings in Punjab by criminals and gangsters. He said, just two days ago, the son of a trader was shot dead in Ferozepur and the next day another trader was killed in Amritsar for ransom.
“Nobody is safe in Punjab today”, he noted while pointing out how easily and effortlessly criminals were killing people with no fear of law. “Sadly killings have been normalized in Punjab under the AAP regime”, he said.
Referring to the life threats issued to senior party leader and MP Sukhjinder Singh Ranhawa, Sidhu Moosewala’s father Balkaur Singh and a famous singer, the PCC president said while the gangsters were getting bold and audacious with every passing day, the government appears to have gone into hiding and completely abdicated its authority.
Warring referred to an ultimatum issued to the gangsters by the AAP leaders during the Tarn Taran by-election to leave the state within one week or face elimination. “We don’t know whether the gangsters have taken AAP ultimatum seriously, but what we know is that they are continuously intimidating people for ransom and those who refuse to pay, are made to pay with their lives”, he said in a scathing attack on the AAP government over its failure to protect the life of people in the state.
Meanwhile, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday, issued a scathing condemnation of the alarming surge in targeted killings and relentless threat calls against political leaders in Punjab. Bajwa directly accused Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who also holds the Home Portfolio, of abjectly failing to stem the explosive rise of organised crime, calling the government’s inaction a grave betrayal of public trust. “Punjab’s communal harmony is now on the brink, shattered by brutal targeted killings and a wave of terror unleashed on political leaders. The daylight murder of a young RSS volunteer in Ferozepur and the brazen attack on a Shiv Sena Punjab leader in Phagwara exemplify the escalating lawlessness. Beyond political figures, innocent civilians are being gunned down in Banga, Amritsar, and Chheharta. This is not just a lapse—this is a collapse of law and order,” Bajwa declared.
