CHANDIGARH, September 13: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today appreciated the grave concern shown by the Punjab Governor Banwari Lal Purohit over illegal sand mining along the border.
He said, this is a serious and scathing indictment of the Punjab government, which has remained lenient and lax on the matter despite High Court orders and the alarm raised by the security agencies.
Warring supported the Governor’s observation that those indulging in illegal sand mining should be booked for sedition.
In a statement, PCC president while expressing his gratitude to the Governor for trying to shake the Punjab government out of its slumber and inertia, reminded him that the Congress party had demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the illegal sand mining along the borders.
“Now that you have also shared our concern and seen it for yourself as how rampant and wanton mining is illegally taking place along the borders thus causing grave risk to the national security, there should be no reason not to recommend an NIA probe into the matter at the earliest”, Warring reiterated his appeal to the Governor.
The PCC president maintained that he did not have any hope from the Punjab government as it had been trapped in misplaced priorities with its Delhi leadership pushing agendas either not concerned with Punjab or against its interests like the SYL and it was only the Governor who could prove to be the saviour of national security and national interest.
