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Operation Amritpal: Raja Warring,Partap Bajwa attack AAP govt in Punjab
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and leader of opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday came down heavily on the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its “botched-up” police operation to nab Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and leader of opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday came down heavily on the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its “botched-up” police operation to nab Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh.
Warring claimed that people’s trust and confidence in the state government was at its lowest ebb. “There are telltale signs that the state government’s intelligence failed miserably in catching the self-styled preacher even after such ‘meticulous planning’ as is being claimed by them,” said the PPCC chief who also wrote to the director general of police.
The Congress leader said that it is astonishing to note that they have all the videos right from his running away in Mercedes to Brezza and then on a motor bike but the cameras of state police were forced to be shut right when the fugitive escapes. “He (Amritpal) might have been given a safe escape by the state government,” he alleged, asking the chief minister to come clean on this issue.
Bajwa also launched a scathing attack on the AAP government for allegedly providing “distorted and misleading information” relating to the operation. He said both the BJP-led Union government and the AAP government in Punjab had their own secret motives behind this operation. “Both governments intended to distract the attention of the people from the current developments taking place at Punjab and national levels,” he alleged.
The LoP claimed that the AAP government deliberately launched this operation in Shahkot, Jalandhar district, as it wanted to take advantage in the upcoming Lok Sabha by-election there.
