Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh during the ex-servicemen’s rally in Jalandhar on Saturday. Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh

Rachna Khaira

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, october 8

Training guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar over the Seventh Pay Commission anomalies, PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh today said the Modi government should remove them to show its true solidarity to the armed forces.He was in the city to attend a meeting with ex-servicemen of Doaba, organised by Shahkot constituency ticket probable Capt Harminder Singh. “When the nation is praising the armed forces for the surgical strikes, what is stopping Modi from removing the anomalies highlighted by the ex-servicemen?” asked Capt.Welcoming Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal’s proposal to raise five armed battalions to be deployed as the second line of defence along the international border in Punjab, Amarinder said he had also raised one such battalion of ex-servicemen in 2004 during his tenure as Chief Minister.On the third list of AAP candidates, the PPCC chief said he only knew two persons — Sukhpal Khaira and Kanwar Sandhu. “We will defeat Sandhu by a huge margin,” he added.Show-cause notice over Nakodar rowCongress leader Nimisha Mehta has been served a show-cause notice for alleged indiscipline during the Punjab Congress Express yatra in Nakodar recently. Party leaders, including former minister Amarjit Singh Samra and ex-MLA Gurbinder Singh Atwal, have already been issued show-cause notices over the incident. “The party has adopted a zero tolerance policy on indiscipline,” said Amarinder.