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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Vinod Kumar | TNN

AAP govt for pushing Punjab towards 'constitutional breakdown': Congress

CHANDIGARH: The Congress party on Friday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab and accused it of pushing the state towards “constitutional breakdown”.

Taking potshots at the government, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said the protests/agitations were the order of the day and the state was on the “brink of bankruptcy”.

Warring also expressed displeasure over the ongoing tussle between chief minister Bhagwant Mann and the Punjab governor. “The governor is seeking legal opinion on action against the CM and the government is clueless. God save Punjab,” he tweeted.

Senior Congress leader and leader of opposition in Punjab assembly Partap Singh Bajwa said while on one hand, chief minister Bhagwant Mann was holding a progressive investment summit to woo investors from across the globe, on the other hand, the police had to run for shelter to rescue themselves from a group of people who were seeking release of a person locked up in police custody.

Earlier, a protest demonstration went on for nearly six months outside a distillery in Zira before the chief minister ordered its closure, he pointed out.

“Under these circumstances, who would come to invest in Punjab? We all know how gangsters are calling shots from the jails and they frequently use mobile phones to fetch ransom from prospective targets. The jail department which comes directly under Bhagwant Mann has failed to fix the problem and every now and then mobile phones are discovered from the secured environs of the prison premises,” said Bajwa.

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