The BJP on Saturday hit again at Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on the problem of deportees, accusing the AAP chief of taking part in politics over the matter.
The primary batch of 104 unlawful Indian immigrants deported from the US had landed on the Amritsar airport on February 5. The second batch of 119 deportees, together with 67 from Punjab, is predicted to reach the airport on Saturday evening. (File picture)
The second batch of 119 unlawful immigrants from the US is predicted to land on the Amritsar airport on Saturday evening.
On Friday, Mann accused the Centre of attempting to defame Punjab as a part of a conspiracy by selecting the Amritsar airport for the touchdown of the plane.
Hitting again at Mann, BJP chief Tarun Chugh stated, “Bhagwant Mann sahab, people of Punjab want to know why youth from the state had to go adopting illegal means, who sent them, and who were the fraudulent agents who spoiled their lives. The youths were forced to sell their land, houses. Rather than catching the culprits and acting against those who spoiled the lives of these youths, the ‘AAP-da’ party leader is playing politics on the issue,” Chugh, who can be BJP’s normal secretary, stated.
BJP’s nationwide spokesperson RP Singh additionally took a dig at Mann, and advised him to cease politicising the problem.
“Rather than giving jobs in Punjab, the ‘AAP-da’ party has only given deteriorating law and order. Ransom has emerged as the new industry. Rather than giving employment, the industry, farming, and service sectors are moving in back gear,” Chugh stated.
Among the many 119 deportees, 100 are from Punjab and Haryana alone. Whereas 67 are from Punjab, 33 are from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two every from Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one every from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The second batch of unlawful Indian immigrants contains 4 girls and two minors, together with a six-year-old lady. A lot of the deportees are within the age group of 18 to 30 years, sources stated.
A 3rd aircraft carrying 157 deportees can be anticipated to land on February 16.
On February 5, a US navy plane carrying 104 unlawful Indian immigrants landed on the Amritsar airport. Of them, 33 every had been from Haryana and Gujarat, and 30 from Punjab.
Mann on Friday questioned the transfer to land one other aircraft on the Amritsar airport, as he accused the Centre of attempting to defame Punjab as a part of a conspiracy. “The BJP-led Centre always discriminates against Punjab. It does not let go of any chance of defaming the state,” Mann stated whereas addressing the media in Amritsar.
Mann additionally requested the Centre beneath which standards the Amritsar airport was chosen to land the second plane. “What is the criterion for choosing Amritsar? The Centre should tell me. Why did you choose Amritsar and not the national capital? You did this to defame Punjab and Punjabis,” Mann stated. Noting that deportation is a nationwide subject, Mann stated it’s being made to seem that solely Punjabis migrate illegally.