Punjab CM dismisses BJP’s criticism as ‘political puffery’
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Our govt. promptly arrested the accused: Amarinder Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday dismissed the assault by BJP leaders on his authorities over the Hoshiarpur rape and homicide case, terming the remarks of Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar as “political puffery”.
“Contrary to what these leaders were claiming, there is no comparison between the Hoshiarpur and the Hathras cases,” Capt. Amarinder stated, stating within the latter occasion, the Uttar Pradesh authorities and the police had not solely didn’t provoke stern motion but additionally allegedly tried to cowl up the matter to learn the upper-caste accused. This, he stated, was in sharp distinction to the immediate motion taken by the Punjab police, which instantly arrested the accused.
Ridiculing the BJP leaders’ criticism of the “so-called silence of the Congress leadership on the Hoshiarpur case”, Capt. Amarinder identified that his social gathering had been pressured to talk up and protest within the Hathras case as a result of the State had didn’t get justice for the Dalit lady there. “Had the BJP government in U.P responded as effectively and speedily as we did in Punjab, neither the Congress and the Gandhis, nor scores of NGOs, lawyers, human rights activists would have been forced to take to the streets to fight for the victim,” he added.
“No BJP leader had uttered a word in protest against the acts of omission and commission of the U.P government and police in the Hathras case, when the entire nation was in angry uproar,” he stated, slamming the social gathering over its politically motivated response to the Hoshiarpur incident.
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