Ambedkar statues damaged under deep-rooted conspiracy: Warring

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring addresses enactment workers successful Hoshiarpur connected Saturday.

Punjab Congress main Amrinder Singh Raja Warring connected Saturday alleged that statues of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar were damaged successful the authorities arsenic portion of a “deep-rooted conspiracy”, which helium said, his enactment would expose.

“This did not hap adjacent during days of coercion successful Punjab. We are investigating this,” helium told Congress workers astatine the party’s “Samvidhan Bachao Rally” successful Shamchurasi here.

The connection has travel pursuing a drawstring of specified incidents successful the state. An alleged desecration of an Ambedkar statue was reported precocious from a colony successful Hoshiarpur’s Garhshankar.

Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) main Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had claimed work for the incidents.

Warring besides slammed the Punjab Government’s precocious launched onshore pooling policy, terming it an effort to “loot” the state, an allegation repeatedly being levelled by the Opposition parties.

The Opposition has alleged that its implementation would effect successful large-scale corruption by ruling AAP leaders, contrary to the authorities assertion that it would spur municipality improvement with farmers ending up getting plots of higher worth successful instrumentality of the onshore contributed by them.

“Wherever farmers would not beryllium consenting to portion with their onshore nether the scheme, the full Congress would basal firmly with them and won’t let the onshore to beryllium acquired,” Warring said opposing the strategy that has been rolled retired for 27 municipality centres.

He besides slammed ruling AAP for expanding indebtedness connected the state, which Warring said had already touched Rs 4.25 lakh crore.

‘Large-scale corruption

in mining sector’

Addressing the enactment workers, Leader of the Opposition successful the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa accused AAP leaders of indulging successful a “large-scale loot” successful the mining sector.

“Family members of ministers and legislators cod wealth from those progressive successful mining,” helium alleged.