Punjab govt acted swiftly in Hoshiarpur case in contrast to U.P. govt in Hathras incident: Amarinder

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday asserted that his authorities had taken swift motion in the Hoshiarpur rape-murder case in sharp contrast to the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s response to the Hathras incident.

He mentioned the challan in this case can be introduced in court docket this week.

The Chief Minister identified that immediate motion had been taken by the Punjab Police and the accused had been caught directly, not like in the Hathras incident.

“That was why Rahul Gandhi had to rush to Hathras, to secure justice for the victim’s family, and did not need to visit Hoshiarpur,” he mentioned whereas interacting informally with media individuals right here.

On Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on “selective outrage”, he reiterated that had the Punjab authorities or police failed to reply with swiftness in the Hoshiarpur case, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others would have reacted the identical manner as they did in the case of Hathras.

The Chief Minister on Saturday had hit out at BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar for his or her feedback over the Hoshiarpur rape-murder case, dubbing their remarks as “political puffery” with no substance or foundation to assist their criticism.

The BJP had attacked the Congress on Saturday over alleged rape and killing of a six-year-old woman in Hoshiarpur, because it requested opposition get together leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra why had they not paid a go to to the household of the sufferer but.

A six-year-old woman was allegedly raped, killed after which set on hearth. Her half-burnt physique was discovered at a home in a village in Tanda in Hoshiarpur on Wednesday.

Gurpreet Singh and his grandfather Surjit Singh have been arrested on expenses of homicide, rape and different related sections of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, police had mentioned on Thursday.

Replying to a query, the Chief Minister denied that Congress MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sidelined in Punjab Congress.

On the Enforcement Department (ED) summoning his son Raninder Singh in an alleged overseas change violations case, Amarinder Singh mentioned it was not the primary time the company had issued summons to his household.

Ridiculing the Akali allegations of him being hand in glove with the central authorities on the farm legal guidelines concern, the chief minister mentioned “everyone knows who is colluding with whom“.

“It is the Akalis who are mixed up with the BJP, they quit NDA under pressure but are still working together,” he alleged.

Bathinda MP Harsimrat Badal was “clearly involved” in the introduction of the “anti-farmer” ordinances and was a cupboard minister on the time these have been introduced in by the Union authorities.

“What did the Akalis do? My government brought the resolution/bills in Vidhan Sabha to reject the central laws,” he added.

Pointing out that the battle was with the central authorities, Amarinder Singh reiterated his enchantment to the farmers to stage ‘dharnas’ in Delhi and never in Punjab, the place financial exercise was being threatened by their blockade.

His ministers have been in talks with farmer unions to resolve the issue, he mentioned, pointing to the truth that solely at some point’s coal shares and 10% urea have been obtainable with the state.

The possibility to purchase energy from the nationwide grid didn’t exist for the reason that state had no cash, he mentioned.

To a query on the standing of resolutions on farm legal guidelines in different states, the CM mentioned there have been 11 non-BJP state governments in the nation and the Congress was in energy in 4 states.

All Congress governments would transfer related resolutions in opposition to the central guidelines, he mentioned, expressing hope that different non-BJP governments like that of West Bengal would additionally observe go well with.

On the 2018 Dussehra rail tragedy in Amritsar, Amarinder Singh mentioned his authorities had offered fast financial aid however the matter now rested with the Railways, who can be giving the remaining aid to the victims and their households.

To a query on the monetary disaster in Punjabi University, the Chief Minister mentioned the earlier regime had indulged in haphazard recruitment, however assured that his authorities will discover options.