NEW DELHI: Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Congress Lok Sabha MP from Ludhiana, on Thursday sought Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s intervention to check extortion and improve the law-and-order situation in Punjab.
Speaking in the lower house, Warring said there is an atmosphere of fear across Punjab. “People, especially businessmen, are receiving calls from abroad and from prisons, and ransom is being demanded, ” he said.
“People who do not pay the ransom are being murdered. Recently, in Ludhiana, there was a shooting in broad daylight during a wedding programme gang war broke out around 1.30 p.m., and the crossfire between two rival gangs and two guests, ” he said.
The Congress MP also hit out at the Shiromani Akali Dal for “giving” a ticket to a gangster, allowing criminals a free run in politics.