Amarinder threatens jail bharo against vendetta politics

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh, along with hundreds of party workers, stormed the Dayalpura police station in Bathinda district offering himself for arrest to protest against the false cases slapped against the former MLA Gurpreet Singh Kangar and several other party activists.

Kangar was also the Congress candidate in the last Assembly election from this constituency but lost to Sikander Singh Maluka of the Shiromani Akali Dal.

However, the Station House Officer responsible for registering cases besides indulging in alleged brutalities upon the Congress workers’ families had left the police station before Capt Amarinder Singh’s arrival.
 
Capt Amarinder warned the Akali-BJP government that in case it did not stop vendetta against the Congress workers, they would be forced to come on the streets.

He said, despite Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s claims, several cases of vendetta had been registered in different parts of the state. He announced that he would be visiting each and every worker who has been victimised by the Akali Dal government by registering false cases against them.
 
He was accompanied by senior leaders which included PCC general secretaries Harminder Jassi, Fateh Jang Bajwa, Kushaldeep ‘Kikki’ Dhillon, Arvind Khanna, Rana Gurjeet, Joginder Singh Panjgraian, Darshan Singh Brar, Ajit Singh Shant, Chiranji Lal Garg and others.
 
He pointed out, the Chief Minister had committed and promised inside the assembly that he would not allow any vendetta to take place and also look into those cases brought to his notice. However, the vendetta politics was continuing while the Chief Minister continued to turn a blind eye towards all that is happening under his nose, he remarked.
 
The PCC President said, if the government was really so desperate to put Congress workers behind the bars they would flood the jails. “Today we had only planned a symbolic demonstration to register our protest and visit the victims’ families and if the vendetta does not stop we will storm all the police stations and it will be difficult for the government to control the situation”, he warned.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is also the Home Minister, said that the SAD-BJP government did not believe in vendetta politics. He said that a criminal case was filed on the directions of Election Commission of India regarding election related violence in January and these people were evading arrest. He said that police had just followed the directions of ECI and state government had no role in it.