Bid to destabilise Punjab, stay vigilant: Charanjit Singh Channi

Terming the Ludhiana bomb blast incident as a shocking and dastardly act, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday said forces inimical to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the state would never succeed in their nefarious designs.

Condemning the unfortunate and tragic incident, Channi categorically said everybody knew it was the handiwork of those forces, as the Assembly polls were drawing nearer. He said, “It is the need of the hour to condemn such incidents in the harshest possible words by one and all.” Giving directions to police authorities to carry out a detailed investigation to get into the bottom of the “cowardly and inhuman act”, Channi reiterated his commitment to book the perpetrators of the heinous crime and give them an exemplary punishment.

The CM also said prima facie, it seemed the deceased was the perpetrator of the crime. Meanwhile, addressing a rally in Ludhiana, the CM asked why sacrilege and blasts were happening just after Bikram Majithia was booked. “We are also probing this angle,” he said. In the evening, PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu also met the injured in various hospitals. — TNS