Punjab CM Amarinder Singh warns protesters towards damaging cellular towers in state

Image Source : PTI Punjab CM Amarinder Singh warns protesters towards damaging cellular towers in state
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday issued a stern warning to those that vandalised cellular towers within the state. Singh mentioned that disruption of telecom companies will not be allowed and directed the police to take strict motion towards all these resorting to such illegal actions.

Making it clear that he won’t tolerate destruction of any non-public or public property in Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh mentioned he was pressured to toughen his stance as his repeated appeals to perpetrators of such acts had been ignored.

So far, 433 towers have been repaired, a state authorities spokesperson mentioned. The state has a complete of 21,306 cellular towers unfold throughout its 22 districts.

The Chief Minister asserted that he won’t let Punjab plunge into anarchy at any price and no person may be allowed to take regulation into their fingers.

Pointing out that his authorities had not objected to, or stopped peaceable protests within the state towards the Centre’s “black” farm legal guidelines for the previous a number of months, he mentioned injury to property and inconvenience to the residents couldn’t, nonetheless, be endured.

The Chief Minister’s warning got here as the overall variety of cellular towers impacted within the state went as much as 1,561, of which 25 had been bodily broken, allegedly by some farmers and their supporters in violation of the instructions of the farmer unions to maintain their protests towards the farm legal guidelines peaceable.

Calling upon farmers and their supporters to place a right away cease to such harmful actions, which had been being disowned by farmer leaders themselves, the Chief Minister mentioned disruption of telecom companies might result in a communications blackout within the state, inflicting its folks, particularly college students and dealing professionals, to undergo severe penalties.

With examinations, particularly board exams, nearing and college students depending on on-line schooling amid the Covid-19 pandemic, such communication breakdown might significantly have an effect on their future, he mentioned.

The Chief Minister mentioned his authorities had already distributed 1.75 lakh smartphones to Class 12 college students to equip them for the board exams, however the vandalisation of telecom property was hampering the scholars.

Professionals working from house, with lots of them having come to the state throughout the pandemic, might lose their jobs on account of such acts of violence and injury to property, he famous.

Even banking companies, which had been additionally largely depending on on-line transactions in these instances of disaster, had been taking a serious hit on account of these illegal acts, he added.

The farmers’ agitation had to this point been profitable and had garnered the assist of individuals from all sections of society and throughout the nation on account of its peaceable nature, mentioned the Chief Minister, warning that use of violence might alienate the protestors from the lots, which might be detrimental to the pursuits of the farming group.

While his authorities’s sympathies had been with the agitating farmers, which had been why it had additionally introduced in state modification Bills within the Vidhan Sabha to negate the central authorities’s legislations, no person might be allowed to take regulation and order of their fingers, mentioned Amarinder Singh.

(With IANS Inputs)
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