Tribune News service
Chandigarh, October 25
At an all-party meeting chaired by Punjab CM Charanjit Channi on Monday, all political parties, barring the BJP, unanimously resolved to ask the BJP-led Central Government to withdraw its notification to increase the jurisdiction of BSF from 15 km to 50 km.
It was also decided to call a session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha to outrightly reject the Centre’s notification, CM Charanjit Channi said.
PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said the notification on the BSF was timed with coming state Assembly elections and it was politically motivated. The notification amounted to creating state within a state, he said.
Sidhu said law and order was a state subject. He cited the example of West Bengal, where the BSF was used to inflict torture on people during the Assembly elections.
The PPCC chief said as the BJP had been outrightly rejected by people in Punjab, the saffron party misusing its powers to “create trouble” in the state. Sidhu said the Centre had not taken the state into confidence while issuing the notification.
Punjab parties seek withdrawal of Centre's notification on BSF's jurisdiction
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