State Cupboard Minister and Punjab AAP President Aman Arora. File | Picture Credit score: PTI
Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) authorities is going through intense criticism from the opposition events over a perceived law-and-order collapse following a spate of prison offenses in current days in several components of the State.
A day after AAP chief and village sarpanch Jharmal Singh was allegedly shot lifeless at a marriage venue in Amritsar, the opposition events, together with the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), have educated weapons on the AAP authorities over the deteriorating legislation and order scenario within the State.
The incident has sparked comparisons to the December 15, 20025, taking pictures dying of ‘Kabaddi’ athlete and organizer Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alternatively known as Rana Balachauria, who was fatally shot in Mohali whereas attending a event.
SAD chief and Lok Sabha MP from Harsimrat Kaur stated “Bhagwant Mann had failed as each the Chief Minister and House Minister and had no proper to proceed in workplace.”
She alleged that there was an entire collapse of the legislation and order scenario within the State. “Gangsters are having a free run and are indulging in extortions and killings at will. Day-after-day, there are sensational incidents just like the current daylight homicide of a village Sarpanch in Amritsar, the homicide of an NRI girl in Kapurthala and a Panchayat member in Moga,” she stated, talking to media individuals in Bathinda.
BJP nationwide normal secretary Tarun Chugh urged all political events to come back ahead to guard the border State of Punjab from the damaging designs of anti-national forces and prison networks, which he alleged have been flourishing underneath the AAP regime.
“The scenario is extraordinarily alarming.. The AAP authorities has utterly failed in its accountability to make sure public security and good governance. Punjab’s governance has completely collapsed, each economically and administratively. The scenario has deteriorated to such an extent that youth, merchants, industrialists, girls, and even farmers really feel unsafe and terrorized in their very own state,” he stated in a press release.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring stated “Police appear to have ceased to exist in Punjab,” referring to the focused killings by the prison gangs. He added that folks of Punjab have misplaced all hopes from the federal government and the police.
In the meantime, Cupboard Minister and AAP State president Aman Arora stated strict directions have already been issued to the Punjab Police. “Anybody who tries to play with legislation and order, anybody concerned on this crime, will discover no forgiveness. The police are actively and successfully on the job and they’ll face strict motion very quickly.”
Holding previous regimes accountable for the “gangsterism” within the State, Mr. Arora traced the roots of the present disaster to the misrule and patronage of earlier governments over the past 10-15 years. “This pestilence was nurtured and allowed to unfold over the previous couple of a long time. The political patronage of that period is immediately liable for this metastasis rising to such proportions,” he alleged.
“Nobody in our authorities or occasion supplies patronage to gangsters, drug peddlers, or criminals,” he added.
Printed – January 06, 2026 03:40 am IST