Close on the heels of the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashing the police probe into the Kotkapura firing incident, former cupboard minister and senior Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu visited Bargari, the epicentre of the sacrilege circumstances that triggered the firing. He took an oblique dig at Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh authorities asserting that `justice delayed was justice denied.’
Sidhu’s go to to Bargari is being seen as politically loaded coming at a time when opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had focused the chief minister claiming ‘a fixed match between Capt and Akali dal’ over the probe. Sidhu landed at Gurdwara Burj Jawahar Singh in Bargari on the event of Baisakhi and demanded that the SIT investigation be carried out and the report on the police firing be made public.
Sidhu’s statements had been seen as an try to focus on the ruling dispensation for being weak on the presentation of information within the circumstances. He stated the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission report in Vidhan Sabha and the report of IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh must also be made public. These probes had been ordered by the Amarinder Singh authorities.
“People have high hopes that the guilty would be brought to book. Justice delayed is justice denied,” he remarked.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had quashed the investigation of the Punjab police SIT and eliminated its chief and sought the structure of a brand new probe crew just a few days in the past, triggering a political slugfest over the problem. The Singh had maintained that the probe into the firing was completely truthful, neutral and unbiased, and had introduced that his authorities would problem the order.
The go to additionally comes at a time when speculations are rife that doorways had been steadily shutting down on Sidhu within the Punjab Congress. While the cricketer-turned-politician had just lately met the chief minister, he’s nonetheless not made public his stand on the supply for repatriation again into the state cupboard. Sidhu, in accordance with sources, was keener on the PCC chief publish. Sources, nevertheless, stated that it was turning into clearer that the Singh was keener on getting a Dalit chief for the publish ignoring Sidhu’s claims.
Party sources additionally revealed that an organisational restructuring was on the playing cards quickly and speculations had been rife that Sidhu might not be thought of for the celebration unit chief’s publish. “For now it clearly seems that he has been sidelined. Now what remains to be seen what he does next,” stated a senior celebration chief. Sources stated that point and endurance was quick operating out for Sidhu with state meeting elections just a few months away throwing some attention-grabbing prospects in Punjab’s political panorama.
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