Cong wants special debate in assembly
Thursday, 18/08/2016
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress Legislature Party leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday said their party will raise the issue of “deteriorating” law and order in the state in the upcoming autumn session of the Punjab assembly in September.
Sharing details received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, at a press conference here, Channi said 4,460 murders and 4,111 rapes have been registered between 2007 and 2016 in 15 out of 22 districts of the state. For data on the remaining seven, he has moved the state information commission. “An average of two murders and two rapes were registered in Punjab daily in the past nine years of Akali-BJP rule in the state. There have been 296 shootouts in the state in these nine years. There is no trace of killers even in highprofile cases of attacks on religious leaders. The government forms a special investigation team (SIT) to bury the case. How does deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal call Punjab a safe state?” said Channi.
Demanding Sukhbir’s resignation as home minister, he said the SAD leader was “patronising” mafias and criminal gangs and promoting “politicisation” of police. “Now the government is also releasing criminals from jails before polls on untenable grounds such as construction of a house. This raises a question mark on the conduct of free and fair assembly elections. They (criminals) might be used to influence and rig the polls. Sukhbir’s removal is a precondition so that fear psychosis is not created,” he said.
