All-party panel on Jallianwala Bagh memorial row sought

Chandigarh, September 1

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Strongly condemning the Narendra Modi-led central government for erasing the legacy of the war of independence — Jallianwala Bagh — in the name of renovation, senior AAP leader and MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan termed it as tampering with the history of Punjab.

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The party also demanded from Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to form an all-party committee of the MLAs on the Jallianwala Bagh controversy to complete the inquiry within a month and submit the report to the Assembly.

Sandhwan was addressing a press conference at party headquarters here on Wednesday in the presence of party spokespersons Neel Garg and Malvinder Singh Kang. — TNS