Won’t forgive sins of omission, commission, says Punjab Congress chief Raja Warring

Taking a strong exception to the Vigilance Bureau summoning party candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu in the midst of his election campaign, Punjab Congress president and local MP Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said on Friday that the party would neither forget nor forgive any sins of omission and commission being committed by the AAP government.

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Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Warring said, summoning Ashu at this stage only reveals that AAP had admitted its defeat and was now acting in sheer frustration. “The cat is out of the bag as both Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann are feeling desperate and frustrated about the imminent fact that they are losing the election,” he said.

Condemning the summons issued to the Congress candidate, he asked, why the Vigilance needs to issue the same in the midst of the campaign and why it could not wait till the end of the elections?

He said earlier also, cases had been registered against workers and councillors just to threaten and intimidate them so that they did not campaign for the party candidate. But, he asserted, Congress men would neither be scared nor be intimidated.

In a clear message to some officials who are dancing like a puppet to the tunes of AAP, he said their time was already running out as it was a matter of about a year more and then, they will be held accountable. “We will neither forget nor we forgive or spare you,” he told them.

The PCC president reiterated his stand that the state needs comprehensive police reforms to fix accountability and curtail their unbridled powers. He said a commission would be set up to verify cases and fake FIRs would be cancelled immediately. And officers who would found to have registered those fake FIRs would be dismissed instantly.

He referred to the custodial killing of a youth in Bhucho Mandi in Bathinda. He said the young man had been detained and brutally killed and the police had registered a soft case against guilty police officials so that they get easily bailed out. It was unacceptable and this has to be changed, the guilty had to be punished.

Warring declared that there were about 50 DSPs, about 35 SPs and a few more officers in Punjab who deserve to be dismissed while suggesting that the commission that would be set up once the Congress forms the government, will identify all such officers so that they were dismissed.