Bathinda/Amritsar: Upping the ante against Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, the Punjab BJP on Sunday served a 15-day ultimatum on the state government to improve law and order in the state. It also sought registration of an FIR against pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh regarding the Ajnala police station incident.
Addressing reporters, state BJP vice-president and former minister Raj Kumar Verka, accompanied by local leaders, said the party would launch an agitation, which would include ‘gherao’ of the Chief Minister, his ministerial colleagues and AAP MLAs, should the government fail to take action against Amritpal Singh within the given time-frame.
“Mann and Kejriwal have a direct nexus with Amritpal Singh and anti-social elements,” alleged Verka. The BJP would not let the law and order situation deteriorate and allow the state to be overwhelmed by the drug menace and anti-national sentiments, he said.
With regard to the liquor policy, the BJP made it known that it was keeping a close watch on the issue. “The state’s excise policy has imprint of the controversial Delhi’s policy,” he said.
Meanwhile, in Amritsar BJP leaders Manoranjan Kalia and Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi said the Central Government was closely watching the law and order situation in the state.
Addressing mediapersons on Sunday, they said CM Bhagwant Singh Mann was holding the home portfolio yet no case had been registered against pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh and his supporters who had stormed the police station at Ajnala and assaulted police officials on February 24. They said gangs of criminals had been striking at will since the government came to power in the state.