Warring warns AAP against pushing Punjab towards anarchy, bloodshed

Warring warns AAP against pushing Punjab towards anarchy, bloodshed

Accuses govt of patronizing gangsters to intimidate people

Refers to Sisodia’s ‘saam, daam, dand, beid remark’

Says, ruling party scared, panic stricken after finding ground slipping beneath its feet

Wants Patiala SSP’s audio clip probed; if found true such officers must be dismissed

We will neither forget, nor forgive, issues ultimatum to partisan officers

Chandigarh 5 December ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today warned the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab against pushing the state towards anarchy and bloodshed the way it was promoting and patronizing the gangsters to win the elections. He said the AAP government appeared to be following former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s diktat of ‘saam, daam, dand, beid’ in letter and spirit in Punjab. At the same time, the PCC president issued a firm and strict warning to all those police officers who have turned into yesmen and errand boys of the AAP that they will be strictly dealt with according to law. “We will neither forget, nor forgive”, he made it categorically clear to all such officers. Addressing a press conference here today, Warring said that the ruling party was scared and panic stricken of losing the elections as it had already realized that the ground had already slipped from beneath its feet. He pointed out, the AAP government was reluctant to hold the Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections, as it knew it would lose. It was only after the intervention of the court that the government was forced to hold the elections, he added. The PCC president gave graphic details from across the state as how the Congress candidates for the Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections were intimidated and prevented from filing their nomination papers. He expressed strong apprehensions that the nomination papers of even those who have somehow managed to file these might get rejected at the time of scrutiny as the ruling party has completely hijacked the election machinery. Replying to a question on the purported audio clip whereby the SSP Patiala is allegedly issuing directions to his subordinates as to how to prevent opposition candidates from reaching the venue of filing nomination papers, Warring said, the matter must be investigated. He said, if found true, such officers must be dismissed from the services. “Most of the SSPs, the DSPs heading police subdivisions and the SHOs and those heading police posts have completely surrendered themselves to the AAP and turned into its errand boys”, he said in a scathing attack against the police partiality. He noted that even if there were no directions like those allegedly issued by the Patiala SSP, it was already happening across the state and the police officials were only doing the AAP bidding. Warring asserted that all such officers will be held accountable under law once the government changes. He said, if some police officials believe that they will get away in the next regime by doing the same thing for the party in power then, they are mistaken. “This must end and we will end it”, he asserted, while maintaining that with police turning into the AAP’s errand boys, gangsters have started ruling the roost in the state. To a question that the AAP was accusing the Congress of having patronized the gangsters during its tenure, Warring strongly denied any such charges. Moreover, he added, even if, for the sake of argument, the Congress or the Akalis had patronized the gangsters, what has the AAP done during the last four years. “There is no more time for excuses, it is the time to answer”, he told the AAP leadership. Confronting the AAP on the issue, he pointed out, the ruling party had specially brought the notorious gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria from Assam jail to Batala for the Tarn Taran assembly by-election. Similarly, he added, another gangster had been released on special parole during the Jalandhar by-election. He said, the parole of the particular gangster was cancelled by the Election Commission of India.