Punjab Cong Asks Badal To Step Down On Deteriorating Law & Order Situation

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Urging Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to own up moral responsibility for the deteriorating law and order situation, Punjab Congress president Maohinder Singh Kaypee said that he should step down to seek fresh mandate from the people.

In a statement issued in Chandigarh on Tuesday, Kaypee said that the communal and regional bias of SAD and the Hindutva agenda of the BJP are both complimentary and whenever they come to power, the terrorist and separatist activists combined with communal forces raise their head.

Lax attitude of the government further compound the problem expecting maintenance of communal harmony from these people is a far cry.

Kaypee said the present state government is anti-people and anti-employee. The unemployed are forced to commit suicide while the employees are struggling for their just demands. Punjab is reeling under a reign of terror of the Badal clan and the lathicharge on employees has become a daily routine which forces investors to retreat, he added.

Referring to the recent incidents of violence at Jalandhar, Batala and Ajnala, Kapyee said these are reflections of the lack of political will of the ruling parties and failure of the SAD-BJP leadership to apprehend the culprits and pacify the outburst of Christians recently and the Dalits last year.