Capt questions move to set up Khalsa varsity

Thursday, 14/07/2016

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Amritsar : Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh on Wednesday criticised the cabinet decision of giving approval to the setting up of Khalsa University here, virtually demolishing a historic institution like Khalsa College here.

“It is part of our Khalsa history and heritage and I promise that the day Congress forms the government, we will restore its status,” he said while warning, “It may prove to be the last nail in the Badals’ coffin.”

Asking Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not to pass the Act in the Assembly, Amarinder, who has also served as the Chancellor of Khalsa College said, “Despite lot of resentment, if he still goes ahead and misuses his brute majority in the Assembly to enact the Act for setting up the university, the Congress government will repeal it and restore the original status of the Khalsa College.”

“Given the greed the Majithia family has shown to grab the historic institution, they have only proved that they are just the greedy reflection of the Badals,” he said, while taunting them, “Apparently inspired by the Badals, Majithias have done to Khalsa College, what the Badals have done to the SGPC.”

He suggested that if the Badals and the Majithias were really serious about setting up an institution of higher learning, they should better have set up it in the southern Punjab.

‘Badals turning land-grabbers’

Gurdaspur: Opposing the Punjab cabinet’s decision to clear the bill for setting up Khalsa University in Amritsar, the leader of the Congress Legislature Party Charanjit Singh Channi alleged that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his extended family had turned land grabbers betraying public trust.

Addressing workers meeting organised by Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa at Qadian town in the district on Wednesday.

‘You need a will to curb crime, laws alone won’t do’

Chandigarh: Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh on Wednesday questioned the very need of bringing in a new law for controlling the crime in the state. “You need a firm intent and a strong will to curb the crime and not just the laws,” Amarinder said in a statement issued here.

Reacting to the Punjab Cabinet’s refusal to approve the Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act (PCOCA), he said, “Even if the Cabinet had approved it, there would have been any difference as this government had already lost the will to govern, leave aside controlling and curbing the crime.”

“The fault does not lie in our laws, but the way the Akalis have undermined the policing and police hierarchy in the state,” he observed.

Capt added that if followed and implemented properly then the existing laws were enough to ensure safety and security of people.

“If I can provide a completely peaceful government between 2002 and 2007 with the existing laws only, why not this government,” he asked, while adding that, “However, when the priorities are other than governance, anarchy and lawlessness are bound to happen, no matter how strict and stringent laws you will enact.”