NEW DELHI: Congress MP and former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi triggered an uproar in Parliament on Thursday after he accused the Union authorities of curbing ‘free speech’ of newly elected MP and radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh by invoking the Nationwide Safety Act in opposition to him.
The previous Punjab CM, referring to Amritpal’s win within the just lately concluded Lok Sabha elections, mentioned, “Day-after-day they speak about emergencies, however what concerning the present state of affairs within the nation? A well-known younger man, a well known singer, was shot useless, and until now, Sidhu Moosewala’s household has not obtained justice and is wandering from place to position.”
“That is additionally an emergency.It’s also an emergency {that a} Member of Parliament elected by 2 million folks in Punjab is being detained below the Nationwide Safety Act and can’t converse for his constituents. That is additionally an emergency,” he added.
Amritpal, a Khalistani sympathizer and head of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit, is held for offenses below the Nationwide Safety Act and has garnered consideration for his radical actions, together with an incident in February the place he clashed with police in an try and free an aide.
The Punjab Police had launched the crackdown after the February 23 Ajnala incident final 12 months during which Amritpal Singh and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke by barricades and barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar metropolis, and clashed with police for the discharge of Lovepreet Singh Toofan, one in all his aides.
Amritpal Singh was sworn in as Members of Parliament below heavy safety within the Parliamnet complicated. Singh is at the moment Assam’s Dibrugarh jail. Amritpal , who received from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab couldn’t take their oaths with different newly elected MPs on June 24 and 25 attributable to their incarceration.
The previous Punjab CM, referring to Amritpal’s win within the just lately concluded Lok Sabha elections, mentioned, “Day-after-day they speak about emergencies, however what concerning the present state of affairs within the nation? A well-known younger man, a well known singer, was shot useless, and until now, Sidhu Moosewala’s household has not obtained justice and is wandering from place to position.”
“That is additionally an emergency.It’s also an emergency {that a} Member of Parliament elected by 2 million folks in Punjab is being detained below the Nationwide Safety Act and can’t converse for his constituents. That is additionally an emergency,” he added.
Amritpal, a Khalistani sympathizer and head of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit, is held for offenses below the Nationwide Safety Act and has garnered consideration for his radical actions, together with an incident in February the place he clashed with police in an try and free an aide.
The Punjab Police had launched the crackdown after the February 23 Ajnala incident final 12 months during which Amritpal Singh and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke by barricades and barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar metropolis, and clashed with police for the discharge of Lovepreet Singh Toofan, one in all his aides.
Amritpal Singh was sworn in as Members of Parliament below heavy safety within the Parliamnet complicated. Singh is at the moment Assam’s Dibrugarh jail. Amritpal , who received from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab couldn’t take their oaths with different newly elected MPs on June 24 and 25 attributable to their incarceration.
