Chandigarh Congress leader Rajeev Shukla on Monday expressed concern over the law and order situation in Punjab and urged Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to firmly address its deteriorating situation.
Opposition parties have trained their guns on the Mann-led AAP administration for alleged deterioration in law and order, citing recent incidents including the attack on Shiv Sena (Punjab) leader Sandeep Thapar in Ludhiana.
When asked about it, Shukla told reporters in Chandigarh that the situation was not good and the Punjab government should improve it.
You will have to face the situation firmly and control incidents of crime. Otherwise, people's anger will increase, he said.
"Law and order is about the people. I will appeal to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to address the law and order situation very firmly," Shukla said.
Shukla was in Chandigarh in connection with the Chandigarh Pradesh Youth Congress.
Chandigarh Congress president HS Lucky and other city unit leaders provided Shukla with details about their upcoming organizational polls.
Several committees of the Congress's Chandigarh unit have completed their three-year terms, a party leader said.
When asked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi starting his two-day visit to Russia for summit talks with President Vladimir Putin, Shukla said it was a pre-scheduled trip and they had no objections to it.
"But we have also been saying and demanding in Parliament that the prime minister visits Manipur. He should also go there," he said.
He also claimed that the recent terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir proved that the BJP's claim to improve the situation in the Union Territory is hollow.
Shukla lashed out at the BJP for demanding an apology from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the Hindu community.
"When he was holding the image of Lord Shiva (while speaking in Parliament), can he be anti-Hindu? He was praising Hinduism along with other religions. Where did he say anything against the Hindu community?" he asked.
He alleged that it was an old habit of the BJP to cheat.
Shukla also asserted that the Congress was in a strong position in Haryana, where assembly elections will be held later this year.
He was responding to claims by former party leader Kiran Choudhry, who recently joined the BJP, that the grand party had failed to establish an organizational structure in Haryana.
"She was vice president in Delhi, she was a minister in the Congress government in Haryana...did she talk about those things before?" -Shukla asked.
"Sometimes when you join a new group, you say such things to make the leader of that party happy," she quipped and claimed that the Congress would form the next government in Haryana with a big mandate.
Shukla, Congress in-charge in Himachal Pradesh, said the party would win the July 10 byelections in all three seats in the state.
All three assembly seats (Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh) remained vacant following the resignations of three independent MPs.
Opposition parties have trained their guns on the Mann-led AAP administration for alleged deterioration in law and order, citing recent incidents including the attack on Shiv Sena (Punjab) leader Sandeep Thapar in Ludhiana.
When asked about it, Shukla told reporters in Chandigarh that the situation was not good and the Punjab government should improve it.
You will have to face the situation firmly and control incidents of crime. Otherwise, people's anger will increase, he said.
"Law and order is about the people. I will appeal to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to address the law and order situation very firmly," Shukla said.
Shukla was in Chandigarh in connection with the Chandigarh Pradesh Youth Congress.
Chandigarh Congress president HS Lucky and other city unit leaders provided Shukla with details about their upcoming organizational polls.
Several committees of the Congress's Chandigarh unit have completed their three-year terms, a party leader said.
When asked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi starting his two-day visit to Russia for summit talks with President Vladimir Putin, Shukla said it was a pre-scheduled trip and they had no objections to it.
"But we have also been saying and demanding in Parliament that the prime minister visits Manipur. He should also go there," he said.
He also claimed that the recent terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir proved that the BJP's claim to improve the situation in the Union Territory is hollow.
Shukla lashed out at the BJP for demanding an apology from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for his comments on the Hindu community.
"When he was holding the image of Lord Shiva (while speaking in Parliament), can he be anti-Hindu? He was praising Hinduism along with other religions. Where did he say anything against the Hindu community?" he asked.
He alleged that it was an old habit of the BJP to cheat.
Shukla also asserted that the Congress was in a strong position in Haryana, where assembly elections will be held later this year.
He was responding to claims by former party leader Kiran Choudhry, who recently joined the BJP, that the grand party had failed to establish an organizational structure in Haryana.
"She was vice president in Delhi, she was a minister in the Congress government in Haryana...did she talk about those things before?" -Shukla asked.
"Sometimes when you join a new group, you say such things to make the leader of that party happy," she quipped and claimed that the Congress would form the next government in Haryana with a big mandate.
Shukla, Congress in-charge in Himachal Pradesh, said the party would win the July 10 byelections in all three seats in the state.
All three assembly seats (Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh) remained vacant following the resignations of three independent MPs.
