BJP, SAD, Capt Amarinder slam Punjab govt for PM Modi's 'security breach'

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 5

BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Wednesday blasted the Congress government in Punjab for engineering a security threat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was going to address a public meeting in Ferozepur. 

Chugh said it’s a matter of shame for the Channi government for not allowing the prime minister to address the public meeting.  

Chugh squarely blamed Channi and Punjab PCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu for joining hands with subversive and anti-national forces to foil the democratic right of the prime minister and the BJP to address public meetings. 

Chugh said it was the responsibility of the Congress government to ensure law and order for the PM’s visit but entire Punjab is hanging its head in shame today. 

The prime minister, he said, had always been thinking of welfare of farmers and it was with due respect to them that he decided to repeal the agriculture laws. 

“But Channi and Sidhu are dancing to the tune of Pakistan ISI. Time has come for Punjab to wake up to nefarious designs of the two,” Chugh added. 

Meanwhile, Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma blamed the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government for the security lapse.

He claimed that the Congress got scared of the event and tried all possible tricks to scuttle Modi’s visit.

Sharma alleged that the Punjab Police was instructed to prevent people from attending the rally.

He said a large number of buses and other vehicles carrying BJP workers and other people were stranded.

He claimed that the police connived with protesters blocking the movement of those headed for the rally.

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the major security lapse which occurred en route Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hussainiwala was reflective of the total collapse of the law and order machinery in Punjab and that Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was solely to blame for this crisis.

In a statement in Chandigarh, the SAD president said “the incident makes it clear that there is no government whatsoever in the state. The infighting in the Punjab Congress has made the chief minister totally ineffective and the situation has become such that there is no clear command over the law and order machinery. This was witnessed today also with the chief minister and Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa speaking in two different voices over the same incident”.

Sukhbir Badal said the situation was of the Punjab Congress party’s own making.

Amarinder Singh calls for President's rule in Punjab

Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday called for President’s rule in the state after a breach was reported in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security.

Amarinder said Channi government had utterly failed in ensuring law and order in the state.

Modi on Wednesday returned without addressing a rally in the poll-bound state after his convoy got stuck in a road blockade near Hussainiwala.

“If we have to keep our state safe and keep law and order system here, then I think President’s rule should be imposed,” the Punjab Lok Congress chief told the media after addressing a rally here, which was also scheduled to be addressed by Modi.

Amarinder, who left Congress to form his own party, has allied with BJP to contest the upcoming polls.

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