Edited By: Oindrila Mukherjee
Last Updated: February 24, 2023, 20:49 IST
Waris Punjab De founder Amritpal Singh together with his supporters after the discharge order of his affiliate Lovepreet Toofan by the courtroom, in Ajnala close to Amritsar on Friday. (Image: PTI)
Radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s supporters attacked the Ajnala police station on Thursday and compelled the administration to just accept their demand of releasing his aide Lovepreet Singh
The alleged inaction of the Punjab Police in two main regulation and order incidents in much less than a month have fuelled the opposition’s cost towards the Bhagwant Mann-led authorities, of “encouraging” radical components in the state.
The so-called supporters of the unconventional preacher, Amritpal Singh – who has brazenly been espousing the trigger for Khalistan – attacked the Ajnala police station on Thursday. They vandalised and compelled the administration to just accept their demand of releasing Amritpal’s aide Lovepreet Singh, who was an accused in a kidnapping case. The preacher has been main protests towards the FIR towards Lovepreet.
The protesters, brandishing swords and weapons, focused the police station leaving half a dozen police personnel, together with a superintendent of police, injured. Once once more, Punjab Police was accused of being a mute spectator in such a state of affairs involving protesters.
Earlier, throughout a protest for the discharge of Sikh prisoners, members of the Qaumi Insaf Morcha attacked Chandigarh Police as they marched in direction of the border with the police on the Punjab aspect trying the opposite approach.
The opposition is fuming and has claimed that latest incidents had been fanning extremist sentiments in the state. “This is not only a complete collapse of the law and order situation in Punjab, it is more serious than that. The incident has serious security implications for the state and country, and there was a particular pattern in these incidents that does not bode well for national security,” mentioned former chief minister and BJP chief Captain Amarinder Singh.
According to Amarinder, when Pakistan was ready to encourage and exploit incidents, the state authorities’s competence was being questioned.
National spokesperson of the BJP, RP Singh equated the incident with an occasion in 1981. Posting a newspaper slicing from that point mentioning the discharge of militant chief Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, he tweeted, “Is history being repeated?”
What is being seen as a humiliation for the police is that Amritpal, who heads the organisation ‘Waris Punjab De’, had issued an “ultimatum” for the discharge of his supporter earlier than the assault in Ajnala.
Under fireplace from the opposition, the state authorities tried harm management. Cabinet minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal, whereas claiming that the Ajnala incident was unlucky, maintained that the individuals of Punjab had religion in Mann. “The police showed a very mature response. The protesters had brought in the Guru Granth Sahib and some kind of violent action could have aggravated the situation. They dealt with the situation professionally,” Dhaliwal mentioned.
The opposition, nonetheless, was unrelenting in its criticism. “Barely some kilometers from the international border, if radicals are attacking a police station, what sort of a response is that? The state is in unsafe hands,” mentioned Akali Dal chief Bikram Singh Majithia.
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