CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi looking for jobs for the “victims” of the 2015 post-sacrilege police firing incidents in Faridkot.
He additionally underlined that as a substitute of giving jobs to the sons of MLAs, the federal government ought to think about offering employment to those that had been the victims of Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura police firing incidents.
Two individuals had been killed throughout police firing at anti-sacrilege protesters in Behbal Kalan whereas some individuals had been injured within the firing at Kotkapura in Faridkot in October 2015.
“It’s a matter of utter discontentment that even after the passage of six years, our authorities has failed to obtain jobs for the victims who had been brutally injured in firing incidents (that) occurred throughout peaceable protest at Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan,” stated Sidhu within the letter.
“It’s the obligation of our authorities to compensate these victims and their households of police brutality as they laid down their lives to save lots of the honour of our Guru Sahib,” he said.
“As a substitute of giving choice in jobs on compassionate grounds to the sons of political leaders/MLAs with sound monetary background, the federal government ought to severely think about their plight and provides them jobs as they put all the things on stake to save lots of the honour of our nice Guru,” added Sidhu.
