Anti-sacrilege law diversionary tactic to hide failure: Cong

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. File

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring connected Sunday termed the AAP government’s determination to array an anti-sacrilege instrumentality successful the upcoming peculiar Assembly league a bid to “distract” radical from its nonaccomplishment to enactment against those down incidents involving desecration of spiritual texts.

“What prevented the authorities from taking immoderate enactment till now? Does the authorities privation to suggest that determination was nary instrumentality successful the authorities and the state against the sacrilege?” helium asked seemingly referring to the 2015 incidents.

The determination to array the instrumentality during the two-day league scheduled for July 10 and 11 was taken connected Saturday.

The desecration of spiritual texts had go a large contented successful the 2017 Assembly elections.

The aboriginal portion of the SAD regime, which ruled successful confederation with the BJP successful the state, was marked by respective sacrilege incidents and consequent constabulary firing connected protesters that had resulted successful the decease of 2 persons successful 2015.

Warring said till now, the authorities had been struck with implicit inertia.

“It neither had immoderate intent nor capableness to bash justness successful the sacrilege cases and erstwhile it realised that nationalist choler was growing, it started resorting to its diagnostic ways of diversion and distraction,” helium alleged.

Warring said suspended AAP legislator Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh had carried retired a elaborate probe into the contented erstwhile helium served the authorities arsenic an IPS serviceman astatine the clip of the 2015 incidents.

“You took votes successful the sanction of sacrilege and you did nothing,” helium alleged.