Chandigarh: Senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded registration of an FIR against Punjab minister Anmol Gagan Mann alleging that his photographs promoting gun culture were being circulated on social media.
Majithia said that there cannot be a separate law for a minister and the common man. In a statement here, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader said, “Even though Punjab police chief Gaurav Yadav had given a deadline of 72 hours to remove all pictures promoting gun culture from social media accounts, the minister Mann failed to heed this warning. And immediate action should be taken against him.”
“This is important keeping in view the need to send a clear signal that the law cannot be different for a ‘special man’,” he added.
@DGPPunjabPolice @BhagwantMann @PunjabPoliceInd @Punjab Government @AnmolGaganMann @CMOPb pic.twitter.com/NrBZQilR43— Bikram Singh Majithia (@bsmajithia) November 29, 2022
Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police (Headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill told reporters, “Everyone has been given time to remove such content from social media.”
The Punjab Police had on November 26 given people three days to remove objectionable content promoting gun culture from their social media handles and till then no case would be registered for promoting gun culture.
The AAP government had on November 13 banned public display of firearms and songs promoting gun culture and violence and also ordered a review of arms licenses within the next three months.
Meanwhile, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal hit out at the AAP government over the alleged deteriorating law and order situation.
Badal asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to take responsibility for “failing” in his duty to maintain law and order in the state.
In a statement here, the SAD president said that instead of taking appropriate steps to instill confidence in Punjabis, the chief minister along with his cabinet had fled the state to campaign for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat.
Asserting that Punjabis had given AAP a massive mandate to bring positive change and “expand AAP’s influence across the country and not use state resources to paralyze governance in Punjab”, Badal said, “Never in the history of the state has a situation arisen when an elected government abandoned its people and allowed the state to slide into anarchy.”