Police Use Water Cannons on Punjab Youth Congress Protestors

By Tricitynews Reporter

Chandigarh 26^th October:- Workers of Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) headed by their president, Amarpreet Singh Lally, protested against the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government which failed to deliver justice to Behbal Kalan firing victims who were staging peaceful protest against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib last year. Youth Congress demanded the time bound CBI probe in the matter. Senior congress leader Harish Chaudhary also came to support the youth brigade of the party and pledged their solidarity for the cause. Police resorted to mild lathicharge and used water cannons on members of (PYC) leaving few injured.

Many of them including the president of PYC Amarpreet Singh Lally were detained by the Police while they were marching towards Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s house from Congress Youth Bhawan, Sector 15 in Chandigarh.

Amarpreet Singh Lally said that Badals who claimed to be sole guardians of Sikhism in Punjab should resign as they have failed to take action against the culprits who were responsible for the series of sacrilegious incidents last year which created a crisis for the state.

Condemning the insensitive attitude of father-son who are running the government in Punjab, Amarpreet Singh Lally said that the Badal government failed to nip the trouble in the bud following which a spate of incidents of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib surfaced. The situation went bad to worse after two persons died in police firing in Behbal Kalan village in Faridkot district on October 14. The real culprits are out of reach even after one year. Nothing short of arrest of guilty cops would sooth the sentiments of the family and Sikh community.   

Series of desecration incidents of the holy book Guru Granth Sahib took place across Punjab which sparked protests and disrupted communal harmony in the state in October 2015 last year. 

Amarpreet Singh Lally said that the issue caused immense pain to Sikhs living in India and abroad. The law and order situation in Punjab deteriorated as the miscreants were having free hand and state government failed to control the situation. Resident of village Sarwan, Gurjit Singh and Behbal Khurd’s resident Krishan Bhawan had died in police firing that had been ordered to disperse people who were protesting over the sacrilege of Sikh’s holy book Guru Granth Sahib.

Among those who participated in the protest also included Dhanwant Jimmy Patiala, Dalveer Singh (Goldy) Khangura, Gurkeemat Singh Sidhu, Sarita Sharma, Kamaljeet Brar, Barinder Singh Dhillon, Vikramjit Singh Pehalwan, Gurmukh Chahal, Barinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sarvjeet Brar, Aarika Kanwar, Daaman Bajwa, Poonam Kangra, Sandeep Bhatia, Avjinder Singh Kala, Rahul Sidhu, Simar Gill and Amanpal Singh Dhanoa.