Chandigarh, November 4: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring has strongly condemned the broad daylight killing of Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri in Amritsar on Friday and raised questions over law and order situation in Punjab.
At the same time, Congress' Raja Warring appealed for peace and harmony and urged people to defeat the nefarious designs of the enemies of Punjab. "There is accomplete collapse of law and order in the state and culprits are choosing and killing their targets with so much ease and convenience", the PCC president said in a statement.
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Raja Warring alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could can afford to leave his state Delhi and campaign in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, but the Punjab CM could not as the state was not so easy to govern and administer as had been proven time and again. "Punjab needs full time governance," he added.
The PCC president said Suri, irrespective of his political opinions, was a high risk target and the government should have been more alert and careful about his security. His killing had sent a shock wave across Punjab and caused a sense of fear among people.
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He warned that Punjab could not afford to allow the situation to drift into the dark era once again. "We have saved Punjab after so many sacrifices of people and it is our duty to preserve that hard earned peace", he said, while appealing for unity and harmony and rising above partisan politics.
- PTC NEWS