AAP burns effigy of govt, Speaker

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 23

Workers of the district unit of the Aam Aadmi Party today staged a protest by burning an effigy of the state government and Speaker Rana KP Singh at Fire Brigade Chowk over misbehaviour with AAP MLAs in the Vidhan Sabha by marshals.

Condemning the incident, AAP workers headed by AAP leader Deepak Bansal raised slogans against the state government. They claimed it was a murder of democracy.

Deepak Bansal said in the authoritarian rule of the Congress, the turbans, which were the pride of Punjabis, were being tossed.

He said atrocities of the Congress government would not be tolerated at any cost.

Bansal said people were fed up with the anti-people policies of the Congress.

The misbehaviour incident with AAP MLAs including Bains, Sukhpal Khaira, Rupinder Ruby and Manjit Kaur, will be written in black words in the history of Vidhan Sabha, he added.

They demanded that the Punjab Government should immediately suspend the Speaker and Captain Amarinder Singh should apologise to AAP MLAs, otherwise the protest would continue from Vidhan Sabha to roads.

AAP workers also staged a protest at Talwandi Sabo.

SAD workers staged a protest in Budhlada town in Mansa district.

SAD women’s wing president Simarjeet Kaur Simmi and SAD district president Gurmail Singh said the Speaker had not only insulted the Sikhs also the elected representatives of the people.

They said following the order of the Speakers, marshals snatched the duppatta of a women MLA and even tossed turbans.

They added that SAD would not tolerate the insult to the democracy.