Feb 15, 2025 12:21 PM IST
Chandigarh Congress MP sees bid to defame Punjab as second aircraft carrying Indian residents who allegedly illegally migrated to the US will land in Amritsar on Saturday evening. Of 119 deportees on board, 67 are from Punjab.
Chandigarh Congress MP Manish Tewari on Saturday supported Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s remarks on the arrival of the second flight in Amritsar carrying Indian residents who allegedly illegally migrated to the US.
On February 5, a US navy plane carrying 104 deportees had landed in Amritsar. Of them, 33 folks every had been from Haryana and Gujarat and 30 had been from Punjab. (File photograph)
Tewari asserted that the central authorities might have landed the aircraft anyplace within the nation however selected Amritsar to “humiliate Punjab”.
“Why are these planes landing in Punjab? What is the kind of message you’re trying to send? Are you trying to send a message that every illegal immigrant to the US is from Punjab? The Punjab CM is absolutely correct to that extent. There were people from Gujarat and Haryana. You could have landed this plane in Delhi or anywhere else. Why in Amritsar all the time?” he stated.
“Delhi does not understand that Punjab does not take very easily to humiliation and there is always a cost to pay when Delhi tries to humiliate Punjab,” Tewari added.
Earlier, chief minister Bhagwant Mann stated that the second aircraft carrying Indian residents who allegedly illegally migrated to the US will land in Amritsar on Saturday evening. He additionally questioned the Centre as to why Ahmedabad or another place was not chosen.
Of the 119 Indian immigrants on board the second aircraft, 67 are from Punjab.
On February 5, a US navy plane carrying 104 deportees had landed in Amritsar. Of them, 33 folks had been from Haryana and Gujarat every and 30 had been from Punjab.
Shiromani Akali Dal chief and former state minister Gulzar Singh Ranike additionally focused the Centre and stated that touchdown the planes within the state was a conspiracy to defame the state and to point out that Punjabis are solely unlawful immigrants.
“It is the misfortune of Punjab that central governments have always tried to defame Punjab. We are a border state, especially the district of Amritsar. Landing the planes (carrying alleged illegal migrants to the US) here is a conspiracy to defame Punjab and to show that only Punjabis are illegal migrants. The planes can land somewhere else, too. We have been demanding that international flights should be started from Amritsar, but the Centre does not permit it. But now foreign planes coming in are landed in Amritsar to defame us,” Ranike stated.
“Planes can land in Gujarat, Haryana, or any other international airport. People from all states have gone, not just from Punjab. This is a well-planned conspiracy. I request to the MEA and the PM that our planes be sent to bring them back. India should take a stand that their planes should not land in our country. I appeal that planes should be landed in other states too, not just in Punjab,” he added.
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