‘ TOTAL COLLAPSE OF LAW & ORDER IN PUNJAB, ECONOMY BANKRUPT’

Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh on Monday said that Punjab was a fit case for President’s Rule as anarchy and bankruptcy was prevailing all over the state.

“There is a total collapse of the law and order machinery in the state while the economy has gone bankrupt long back,” he remarked while talking to reporters after meeting the parents of Arshdeep, the girl who along with her mother was pushed off from a running bus by the molesters while travelling in an Orbit Aviations bus owned by the ruling Badal family.

The former chief minister pointed out, criminal incidents of serious nature were taking place in Punjab at an alarming regularity and people were feeling unsafe and insecure. “There was a feeling of fear and insecurity prevailing among the people as such incidents were taking place every second day,” he said, arguing that this government had lost the will to govern and hence President’s Rule was the only option.

— PTI Congress MP Amarinder Singh addresses a press conference in Moga after meeting the family of the Moga molestaion victim on Monday as his wife Preneet Kaur, the party’s Patiala MLA, looks on.