AAP: Previous govts backed gangsters

Chandigarh: Responding to the opposition’s allegations about Punjab’s law and order situation, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday hit back at state Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring and state BJP chief Sunil Jakhar by accusing their parties’ previous govt of patronising gangsters.
AAP chief spokesperson and MP Malvinder Singh Kang alleged that: “When the Akali-BJP combine and the Congress governed the state, they protected gangsters whom chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s govt has sent to jail in the last two years.The previous govts used to drag youth into a life of crime, while the Mann govt orders prompt investigation and arrests.”
Kang claimed that Jakhar’s BJP governed neighbouring Haryana, “from where a reprehensible crime was reported a few days ago”. He said: “So, why don’t they question the Haryana govt? That state now has a repuatation of producing gangsters.”