New Delhi: Punjab in the present day is a burning volcano on the point of a civil battle if it isn’t managed, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Harsimrat Kaur mentioned within the Lok Sabha Tuesday, in a stinging assault on the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) authorities.
“The federal government is simply inquisitive about looting Punjab and spending it to make (Arvind) Kejriwal and his authorities shine throughout the nation,” she mentioned throughout a debate on the issue of drug abuse within the nation.
The Bathinda MP accused Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of being liable for the killing of singer Sidhu Moosewala in Might.
“A chief minister withdraws safety of oppositions, singers, and many others. after which places it on social media. A famend singer, Sidhu Moosewala was killed as a result of the chief minister withdrew the safety and instructed the entire world about it,” Kaur alleged.
Speaking in regards to the perils of drug abuse, the previous union minister mentioned that Punjab was beneath a “Jungle Raj” (lawlessness) and that the “gangsters are operating Punjab from jails.” “For drug smuggling, Punjab ranks primary within the nation. Punjab is spreading most medicine within the nation. We’re a border state. This weak authorities is itself serving to Pakistan,” she claimed
Attacking the AAP and its chief Arvind Kejriwal, the SAD MP additionally alleged that the Punjab authorities is utilizing cash to assist the AAP in different elements of the nation.
“Firearms being poured, medicine being poured and the federal government has closed its eyes. The federal government is simply inquisitive about looting Punjab and spending it to make (Arvind) Kejriwal and his authorities shine throughout the nation,” Kaur mentioned.
There have been “two tremendous CMs” over the Punjab chief minister who ran the present, she mentioned, not directly referring to Kejriwal and AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha.
“There was so many complaints of individuals sitting subsequent to him (Bhagwant Mann)…to vary their seating (in Parliament). The CM (then an MP), who used to come back intoxicated at 11 am in parliament, is now operating the state,” she claimed. “On roads, it’s written ‘don’t drink and drive’, however he’s driving a complete state.”
The SAD MP additionally highlighted the 2016 incident when Mann was discovered responsible by a parliamentary committee of breaching the safety of Parliament by video-recording its particulars. That had resulted within the suspension of Mann from the remaining interval of the Winter Session of Parliament.
“As an MP, he made movies of Parliament from inside in order that our enemies would know the place to enter from and the place to exit from. That’s why he was proven approach out (of Parliament),” Kaur mentioned. “After a celebration was born within the state in 2014, issues have occurred that Punjab or Punjabis couldn’t even consider.”
It (the menace of medicine) “scares me the route by which Punjab is heading”, she mentioned.
The Akali MP additionally attacked the earlier Congress authorities within the state between 2017 and 2022 which was led by Amarinder Singh for over 4 years after which Charanjit Singh Channi.
“They (the Congress) made two CMs. They eliminated their very own chief minister and the brand new chief minister offered Punjab. He has returned to the nation (from overseas) now after 10 months,” she mentioned, referring to Channi.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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