The Congress government in Punjab has maintained its policy of highhandedness. The only answer it had for agitating jobless nurses, teachers, doctors and other unemployed professionals is batons. When it deals with jobless citizens, who takes the path of agitation to get their demands met or air their grievances, a reign of terror is let loose on them.

We warn the Congress government to stop danda-raj in Punjab and condemn the brutality and barbarism unleashed on veterinary doctors in Ludhiana on September 21. The ugly face of the police came into fore when more than 100 veterinary doctors including girls intended to meet the chief minister to submit their memorandum of demands. Instead of facilitating the meeting, they were caned and their clothes were torn. Moving ahead with its terror policy, the police have booked 200 agitating doctors including 50 girls under various sections of the IPC. The indiscriminate and unprovoked lathi charge by the Punjab police on various cross sections of the people of Punjab has become the order of the day. The unemployed young men and women, protesting teachers, doctors and nurses, farmers- all have faced the wrath of the Punjab police.

The worst is the role of the Captain Amrinder Singh, the chief minister who has failed to restrain the police force till date. Justifying the police for its brutal acts reflect the autocratic mindset of erstwhile Maharaja. It seems his government days are numbered. The Congress will have to face the ‘music’ of electorate during coming assembly elections for its anti-people policies.

It is ironic that neither the courts nor the State Human Rights Commission has taken the suo motto notice of these regular acts of the Chandigarh and Panjab police. We make an appeal to the affected sections to join hands in their battle for all round justice for the people of Punjab.