Shiromani Akali Dal leader and MP Harsimrat Badal claimed Monday that the AAP dispensation in Punjab has been a “failure,” as she demanded the dissolution of the government and the holding of fresh elections to save Punjab. Interacting with reporters outside Parliament, she held both Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal responsible for the law and order situation in the border state.
“This is a totally failed government. The AAP government should resign on its own. They should dissolve the Punjab government on their own and hold fresh elections to help save Punjab,” Harsimrat Badal said. She also said that Maan and Kejriwal should be booked for the “mess” in Punjab on the law and order front and for the killing of noted Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.
Badal said, “Now gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in the Punjab government’s custody, is giving interviews to TV channels, saying that the moment they came to know that Moosewala’s security was withdrawn, they did not let go of the chance.” The SAD leader also claimed it was the Delhi Police who nabbed all the culprits in the case and later handed them over to the Punjab police “who were making him meet his girlfriend, and then he escaped from police custody”. The SAD MP from Bathinda also asked why action was not taken against those responsible for the attack on Punjab police personnel in Ajnala.
Tension gripped Punjab after the police launched a major offensive against radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s ‘Waris Punjab De’ and his associates. The Punjab Police said it has invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against five people linked to
Amritpal Singh.
