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CHANDIGARH, October 14: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today strongly condemned the killing of two people who were protesting against sacrilege of the holy Bir, in the alleged police firing near Kotkapura, today. “Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has virtually lost control over things and the state is drifting towards anarchy”, he warned in a statement issued here today.
Asserting that the situation in Punjab was going from bad to worse, Capt Amarinder observed that Mr Badal should better quit if he is not able to maintain control over things. “Trying to assert your authority by use of brute force and killing unarmed protestors is not going to restore your image and credibility that has been eroded beyond any hope of redemption”, he told Mr Badal while warning him not to add fuel to the fire.
Holding Mr Badal squarely responsible for the current situation including the loss of two precious lives, the former Chief Minister said, “whenever situation demanded Mr Badal has always failed to rise to the occasion by letting down people of Punjab and he has failed again”.
“This is not the way to deal with hurt sentiments of people”, Capt Amarinder asserted, while adding, “the police are expected to exercise utmost restraint under such situations, but unfortunately today they turned trigger happy”.
He regretted that instead of identifying the culprits for the sacrilegious act and bringing them to the book, the Akali-BJP government has killed and injured the innocent protestors with hurt feelings over what had happened and they were protesting against.
“If you can exercise utmost restraint against other protestors and rightly so, why did you need to show such utmost hurry in resorting to firing on the unarmed people without any provocation?” he asked Mr Badal, while adding, “or you wanted to convey some hidden message and appease someone for your vested political ends”.
