CHANDIGARH, December 16: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today urged the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to take serious note of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. He said, Punjab was turning into killing fields with criminals and gangsters striking at an alarming regularity.
Reacting to a series of killings and today’s firing at Batala, the PCC president said that the issue concerned the “very existence of Punjab as a peaceful and progressive state”. But, he added, “unfortunately we are losing on that as hardly a day passes when there is no killing by the criminals and gangsters taking place at one place or the other”.
He said the entire state was under the grip of “fear and terror” of the gangsters who have the audacity to strike at will. He pointed out, from Batala on one side and Abohar on the other, criminals and gangsters were ruling the roost.
Warring disclosed that there are a lot of people who are forced to pay the “ransom” and “protection money” but they do not complain, as they do not have any faith in the government or the police that they will be protected.
He called for firm action against the rising crime in the state and assured full cooperation of his party. “Let me assure you that as a principal opposition party, the Congress will stand by you in every action to finish the crime and get rid of the criminals and gangsters”, he told the Chief Minister, while adding, “the time to act is now lest it is too late and we reach a situation of no return”.
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