Says, AAP destroyed Punjab beyond redemption, ‘People getting killed publicly, in broad daylight’
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that the people of Punjab have lost all hope in the Aam Aadmi Party government and the police in Punjab.
“There is nothing like police in Punjab anymore as if it does not exist”, he remarked while referring to daily incidents of broad daylight murders across the state with criminals having no fear of law anymore.
Reacting to the killing of a Sarpanch in Amritsar, in full public view in the midst of wedding celebrations, Warring pointed out, the killers did not show any fear and came with all confidence and without even having covered their faces. He said this was because the killers did not have any fear of law.
He noted that the killers were now openly owning up the killings with pride, as it apparently enhances their “extortion rates and power” as the police have completely left the space open for the criminals. “Police seem to have ceased to exist in Punjab”, he said, while referring to the alarming increase in the number of targeted killings by the criminal gangs.
The PCC president said that the Amritsar incident was second as earlier two people were killed at a Ludhiana wedding. He said the culprits had not been nabbed so far even after about two months having passed since the Ludhiana wedding day killings.
“This only suggests that the police have given up on crime and left people to their own fate”, he observed, saying that people of Punjab have lost all hopes from the government and the police.
Warring expressed surprise over the complete indifference and lack of concern on part of the Chief Minister towards the alarming increase in crime in the state. The Chief Minister has not issued a statement even, he pointed out, while asking the government and the police what they actually discuss in the crime review meetings?
“Doesn’t your conscience prick you that what for are you there when you cannot prevent the crime and save the lives of people?” he asked the government and the police authorities.