Security deployed with PPCC president accused of manhandling, misbehaving with themFIR sought against Sidhu for injuring ANM

Tribune News Service

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Amritsar, January 2

Senior BJP leader and Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi visited Government Medical College here on Sunday to meet auxiliary nurse and midwife (ANM) Amandeep Kaur, who was injured by a vehicle in the cavalcade of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Kaur had sustained injuries after she was allegedly dragged by the vehicle in which the PPCC president was sitting. Lekhi demanded that the injured health employee be given justice and a police case be registered.

The ANMs had earlier alleged that the security deployed with Sidhu had manhandled and misbehaved with them.

The BJP leader said the Union Government had doubled its share of allowances for ANMs in 2018. She said though Haryana had immediately provided relief to the health employees, the Punjab Government had still not done the same. She lauded the role of ANMs and other health employees in successfully tackling two Covid waves and running the vaccination drive.

Aam Aadmi Party district president Jivanjot Kaur also visited the GMC and met the injured nurse. She said insensitivity and indifference of the

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