Capt blames Khattar govt for post-verdict violence
Friday, 25/08/2017
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Chandigarh : Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today blamed the BJP government in Haryana, led by ML Khattar, for large-scale post-verdict violence that left over two dozen people dead and scores injured, besides damage to public property.
While the Haryana Chief Minister blamed anti-social elements for the violence, Amarinder while talking to The Tribune said, “It is the responsibility of the state government to maintain law and order. It is a clear case of abdication of responsibility by the Haryana government.”
The BJP was politicising the issue by blaming Punjab for the concentration of dera supporters in the state and it was clearly aimed at covering up the failure of the BJP government in Haryana, he said.
The Chief Minister expressing shock said the situation was allowed to escalate by the Haryana government. The trouble could have been averted had the dera supporters been stopped from aggregating in one place, he said.
“The Haryana Government should have stopped trains and buses from reaching Panchkula, just as Punjab had done,” he said, adding that as an administrator, he would not have allowed such a large crowd to gather.
The Punjab Chief Minister said it was difficult to control a large hysterical crowd once it was allowed to gather. Preventive and precautionary measures should have been taken in time.
He assured the people that 85 companies of the CRPF and the BSF were deployed on the ground and the Army was also on standby to ensure their safety and security.
Earlier, the Chief Minister passed through two key roads leading to Panchkula and visited Zirakpur bordering Panchkula, besides Banur and Mohali.
