Sack SAD-BJP government in state: Verka to Guv

Tribune News Service 

Amritsar, August 8 

The National SC Commission vice-chairman, Raj Kumar Verka, today stated that the Punjab Governor should ask the President of India to dismiss the SAD-BJP government over the deteriorating law and order issue in the state. 

He said the BJP should withdraw its support to the SAD government rather than giving statements regarding failing law and order in the state. While condemning the brutal attack on the RSS Punjab vice-president, Jagdish Gagneja, he said leaders of the BJP, who had met Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to express their anguish, had come out with yet another statement to soothe pulsating nerves of the people and the party. 

“Will BJP leaders fix a deadline? Ideally, the party should withdraw its support or demand resignation of the Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds the charge of Home Minister over dismal law and order in state,” he added. 

He said, “Gruesome murder of Chand Kaur, wife of the former head of Namdhari sect in Ludhiana, murderous attack on Dhadrianwala, killing of a wood trader in Amritsar, all these cases indicate towards failing law and order in  the state. All these cases still remain unsolved.” 

“Cases of atrocities on the Dalit community have increased manifolds in Punjab. Due to false cross case registered against members of the community at behest of the ruling party, justice eludes Dalits,” he added. 

Verka said on one hand Punjab was battling with the problem of drug abuse, on the other the government had given a free hand to the sale of liquor in the state. He alleged that the number of illegal liquor vends in a village was more than a licensed vend. He urged the Governor to write to the President of India for dismissal of the Punjab government without any delay. 

Reacting to the statement of Prime Minister, who had expressed concern over attacks on Dalit community members by fake ‘Gau Rakshaks’, he said would it change the reality at the ground?