CHANDIGARH : Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today warned against the dangerous attempts being made to sabotage peace in Punjab. He said, the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab instead of facing the situation was trying to run away from it.
Addressing a press conference outside the Vidhan Sabha here today, Warring said his party wanted to raise and debate the issue about the Khalistani voices being raised in Punjab, in the Vidhan Sabha, but they were not allowed to do so.
He pointed out how attempts were being made by some people to vitiate peace in Punjab with calls for “shaheedi and shahadat”. He said provocative speeches were being made and the AAP government was being a mute spectator.
The PCC president pointed out, on September 29, an ‘Azaadi March’ was taken out in Hoshiarpur to mark the anniversary of the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in 1981. He also referred to scribbling of Khalistan slogans on walls of different buildings across the state. It is surprising how the AAP government can allow all this to happen, he remarked.
Warring said it reminded of the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s. “We have suffered that dark era and we don’t want to suffer again”, he said, while warning the AAP government against any complacency.
He said it was because of the Congress party that peace was restored in Punjab. Pointing towards the CLP leader Partap Singh Bajwa and the former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who were sitting besides him, Warring said, it was because of the sacrifices of such leaders and their families that peace came to Punjab.
The PCC president said, the AAP was not even in existence at that time and that is the reason it cannot understand and realize the threat and challenge such activities pose to peace in Punjab.
