Police on Saturday used water cannons to disperse lots of of Aam Aadmi Party staff who had “gheraoed” Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s residence in Siswan to protest the continuing energy disaster within the state. Barricades have been damaged in.
Heavy safety was deployed and multi-layered barricades have been put up on the street resulting in the CM’s farmhouse. However, the protesters led by AAP state president Bhagwant Mann and Leader of Opposition Harpal Cheema broke the primary layer of barricades and reached the Siswan T-point, the place the police used water cannons to disperse them. In this scuffle, the turban of many protesters additionally got here off.
The police detained a number of AAP leaders together with Mann, Cheema and several other AAP MLAs. They have been later launched.
The Amarinder Singh-led authorities is dealing with criticism from the opposition for not offering sufficient electrical energy to the customers, particularly the paddy growers, to sow the crop. Punjab is grappling with unprecedented energy shortages, with each city and rural areas dealing with extended load shedding amid scorching warmth and the continuing paddy transplanting season. The CM has already ordered discount within the hours of presidency places of work and decreased energy provide to industries with excessive vitality consumption.
Earlier, addressing the protesters, AAP leaders slammed the Congress authorities for failing each city and rural electrical energy customers.
Mann stated that they had gathered to precise the “grief” of the two.75 crore individuals of Punjab to the chief minister, whom he alleged was “sleeping in his farmhouse”.
He stated electrical energy in Punjab is the “most expensive” within the nation at Rs 10 per unit. Mann stated that as a consequence of energy reduce on this scorching warmth, individuals are compelled to sit down on street dharna.
Mann, the social gathering’s MP from Sangrur, additionally raised the difficulty of ongoing protests by farmers towards the three central agricultural legal guidelines. He stated Amarinder Singh ought to method Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the farmers’ points and repeal all three “black laws”.
The AAP chief alleged that each the CM and Akai Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal “are not bothered about the common people”.
Cheema stated that personal energy corporations are looting the state exchequer. He alleged that Amarinder Singh neither fulfilled his election guarantees nor ended the “mafia” regime.
“Even today, the people of Punjab are suffering because of costly sand, gravel, electricity, petrol and diesel,” he stated, including that each the ruling Congress and the Akali Dal are in a troublesome place after the AAP’s announcement by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Huh. On coming to energy, 300 models will likely be given free electrical energy.
Mohali Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Satinder Singh stated strict preparations have been made and nobody was damage.
The district police later booked 223 AAP leaders and staff below IPC part 188 (disobedience to orders duly promulgated by a public servant) and part 51 (a) of the Disaster Management Act.
Those who’ve been booked embrace Mann, Cheema and MLAs Meet Hare, Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Kulwant Singh Pandori and Master Baldev Singh.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
