Congress flays Punjab govt for failing to check rising crime rate

Congress leaders and workers held protests against the deteriorating law and order situation at different places in the city and Majitha. The call for the protest was given by the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC). Former Chairman of Improvement Trust and Congress leader Dinesh Bassi also staged a sit-in today outside the office of ADCP City Harpal Singh in Mal Mandi. Bassi lashed out at the state government saying that people were not safe even in their homes.

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Dinesh Bassi, who sat on a dharna with Congress workers in East constituency, alleged that the law and order situation had deteriorated badly. Every village and city in Punjab was facing problems due to the laxity of law and order enforcing authorities, he said.

Block president and former councillor Navdeep Singh Hundal, who was present on the occasion, said that in the name of change, the state government had created a situation where there was no peace. If people are not safe, then the state will not be able to progress, he said.

Similarly, a dharna was organised at Majitha by Congress workers. Speaking on the occasion, Congress leader Bhagwant Pal Singh Sachar stated that demanding ransom had become common and the fear of law had gone out of the minds of criminals.

Congmen also protest in Bhikhiwind

Tarn Taran: Former MLA and Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Bhullar has decried the deteriorating law and order situation in the district. Addressing party workers who were staging a dharna against the state government in front of the DSP office in Bhikhiwind on Tuesday, Bhullar said the residents of this border district have been left to the mercy of gangsters who were entering houses and terrorising people with the police remaining a mute spectator.

He said that a number of families of well established businessmen, qualified doctors and others have migrated to safer places from the area. Banks and filling stations were being looted during the daytime at gunpoint. Gurmukh Singh Sandhpur, Devinder Singh, Bakhshish Singh Daliri and Surinderpal Dipty were among those who addressed the gathering. A memorandum in the name of the state government was presented to the DSP concerned.

The party workers also staged dharnas in front of the office of the DSP’s in Tarn Taran, Patti , Sri Goindwal Sahib and presented memorandum to the police officers.