Harsimrat: Mann should resign over 'law & order collapse'
Sangrur, Sept. 29 -- Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal has demanded the resignation of chief minister Bhagwant Mann over recent student protests. She held Mann accountable for police action against female students at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Jalandhar.
She said that Mann, who also serves as the state's Home minister, must take moral responsibility for the complete "collapse of law and order".
During the Maawan-Dheeyan Insaaf rally in Sangrur on Monday, Harsimrat symbolically placed a memorandum on the vacant chair of the DC before an official accepted it. DC Poonamdeep Kaur said she was busy in a meeting so naib tehsildar Jagdeep Inder Singh was assigned the duty, who confirmed receiving the memorandum.
She said the memorandum demanded an independent time-bound probe into the bribery allegations against chief minister Mann's wife. It also demanded releasing Rs 60,000 to all women as promised by AAP and called for justice in cases of alleged police atrocities, including "torture" of Mohanjit Singh and alleged suicide of a Dalit man in Sangrur. htc...
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