Congress says police helpless, BJP seeks all-party meeting

CHANDIGARH: The Congress and the BJP on Mondat targetted the AAP government in Punjab over deteriorating law and order.
While the Congress took on the AAP on the second day of the state legislative assembly's ongoing budget session, BJP state president Ashwani Sharma wrote a letter to CM Bhagwant Mann to ask him to convene an all-party meeting for a discussion on finding ways to restore peace in Punjab.
Congress state president and Gidderbaha MLA Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, who came to the assembly in a T-shirt printed with news highlighting various crimes, said it seemed that Punjab Police, which was known for its bravado, was feeling helpless.
Pointing to the storming of a police station by Sikh radical Amritpal Singh and his supporters in Ajnala, Warring said now even police stations were not safe in Punjab. He said this was the first time in the last 40 years that a police station has been laid to seige by an unruly mob led by a self-styled radical leader. "But, even after so many days of this incident in Ajnala, there is no police action against the perpetrators of crime," he said.
In his letter, Sharma said there was a sense of panic in the people over rising crime in the state. Sharma reminded Mann that being the CM, it was his duty to ensure law and order in the state. "Incidents of murder, dacoity, extortion, and loot are being reported on a daily basis in Punjab for the past many months," he said.