PM should clarify Centre's policy on terrorism: Bajwa

Opposing the Centre's decision to release Sikh terrorist Waryam Singh serving a life sentence under TADA, Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clarify the policy of his government towards terrorism.
In a statement here, he said that Modi government had overlooked the grim tragedy that took thousands of innocent lives in Punjab for more than a decade and it was the people like Waryam Singh who were responsible.
He asserted the Congress had always fought against terrorism and terrorists and would continue to do so.
He said that it was the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who sacrificed her life for the unity and integrity of the country.

On the farmers' protest in the state, he said at the time when farmers were committing suicides every day, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his government had adopted an attitude of criminal indifference towards the farmers who had been ruined, not due to natural calamity but the "nexus" between the ruling political class and the pesticide dealers resulting in the present catastrophe.
He made it clear that the Congress was standing like a rock with the farmers and urged them to take avenge their humiliation at the hands of this self-styled champion of theirs in the next Assembly election slated in 2017.

Bajwa said it was shocking that Badal had refused to hike the compensation for the crop loss despite the fact that even the cost of input for cotton was more than Rs 8,000 per acre, the offer made by the state government which amounted to sprinkling salt on their wounds.
He claimed that the Congress had always been liberal towards the farmers and nothing could be a bigger evidence that the comparative hike in the MSP of paddy and wheat during UPA regime as compared to the Modi government in which the Akali Dal is a partner.