PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh interacts with border residents in the Khemkaran sector on Tuesday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
GS Paul
Tribune News Service
khemkaran, October 4
Supporting the surgical strikes by the Army across the LoC, Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh today alleged that war hysteria was being created by the Modi-led Union Government and the SAD-BJP in the state to reap political dividends.During his tour to a number of villages along the Indo-Pak border in Khemkaran and Tarn Taran, Amarinder told the residents not to abide by the government’s evacuation orders.He said he would be camping at Raja Tal village from October 10. “There has been no movement of the Indian Army, while the suspicious activity across the border could be monitored through satellites and other hi-tech equipment. What was the logic of displacing thousands of families,” he asked.He alleged that the move aimed at getting political mileage ahead of the elections in UP and Punjab. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was blindly following the BJP’s diktat without bothering about the state people, he said.Amarinder pointed out that on one hand, the PM was emphasising the need for de-escalation of tension, and on the other, poor villagers were being forcibly evicted. He claimed that surgical strikes were carried out even during the Congress regime, but nobody tried to take political mileage out of it.Villagers reportedly told him that their crops were ready for harvesting and they won’t leave their villages.
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