Punjab Authorities Advised Farmers To Block PM Modi’s Convoy: Haryana Chief Minister

Punjab’s Channi authorities put PM Modi’s life in peril, says Haryana Chief Minister (File)

Chandigarh (Haryana):

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday accused the Charanjit Singh Channi authorities of Punjab of endangering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s life by asking farmer leaders to dam the rout of his convoy to Ferozepur.

Mr Khattar made the allegation within the wake of a sting operation of a TV information channel on the breach of the PM Modi’s safety, purportedly exhibiting the “SHO” of the related Punjab police station telling the channel that he was requested “to dam the gang and roads” and “he carried out these directions”.

In a Haryana authorities assertion, Mr Khattar was quoted as saying that “the CID (Punjab) had additionally warned that an alternate route may need to be deliberate within the wake of dangerous climate situations”.

“Removed from making any preparations, the Punjab authorities gave clear directions to farmer leaders on the right way to block the trail of the Prime Minister. By doing so, they’ve put his life in peril,” the Haryana chief minister mentioned within the assertion.

Mr Khattar in addition to state’s Dwelling Minister Anil Vij too earlier hit out on the Channi authorities over the PM Modi’s safety breach, citing a ‘sting’ executed by a information channel which purportedly confirmed some Punjab Police officers telling the channel that they’d knowledgeable their superiors about protesters blocking the route of PM Modi’s cavalcade however no motion was taken.

“Within the sting operation of a nationwide information channel, it has turn into clear that there was a CID report warning about dangerous climate and subsequently an association for an alternate route ought to be made.

“Prime Minister Shri @narendra modi ji’s life was intentionally put in peril, I strongly condemn it,” Mr Khattar mentioned in a tweet in Hindi earlier.

“I strongly condemn that the safety of the Prime Minister had been comprised,” he later mentioned in a state authorities’s assertion.

Referring to his earlier demand of dismissal of the Channi authorities and holding the Punjab meeting elections below President Rule, he mentioned, “It has come to the fore by sting operation that an SHO is telling how he was directed to dam the gang and roads. He carried out these directions”.

Referring to the sting operation by the information channel, Vij instructed reporters, “There isn’t any doubt within the minds of the folks that it was a conspiracy of the Punjab authorities below which the Prime Minister was stopped”.

PM Modi’s Punjab go to on January 5 was reduce brief as he was stranded on a flyover close to Ferozepur for 20 minutes resulting from a blockade by protesters.

After the safety lapse, PM Modi’s convoy determined to return with out attending an occasion which included paying tributes at a martyrs’ memorial at Hussainiwala and inaugurating developmental initiatives. The prime minister additionally couldn’t attend a rally in Ferozepur.

Mr Channi has been insisting that there was no menace to PM Modi. The Congress social gathering has recommended that the choice to chop brief the prime minister’s journey was attributable to the alleged skinny attendance at his rally.

The Supreme Courtroom has constituted a panel to probe all the episode.

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