Centre wants to impose Prez rule in state: Navjot Sidhu

Amritsar, January 3

Amid protest against the newly enacted farm laws, former state Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said the BJP-led Centre was creating grounds for imposing President’s rule in Punjab.

He expressed his apprehension through his tweet saying, “There’s no law and order problem in Punjab. Farmers dying on Delhi’s borders should be the government’s real concern but it is maligning Punjabis and scuttling our democratic voice by projecting us as anti-national to safeguard corporate interests and create grounds for President’s rule.”

In the backdrop, reports surfaced about damage to mobile towers of a telecom firm owned by a corporate house in the state. Following this, the BJP state leadership has accused the Congress of not maintaining law and order in the state. Meanwhile, dejected by “offensive comments” being used by the BJP leadership against the farmers’ peaceful protest, senior leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal has served a legal notice to Union Minister Giriraj Singh. — TNS