Punjab CM Amarinder Singh orders crack down on Jio tower vandals

Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh has directed the police to behave towards vandals who’ve been slicing energy provide from Jio cell towers throughout the state. The determination got here after his attraction to the protesters went unheeded. The vandals are apparently doing it in help of the farmer protests.
Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh directs police to take motion towards these vandalising cell towers within the state(file picture) pic.twitter.com/SeScsAtU1y— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2020
Meanwhile, solely hours earlier, Srivatsa, senior Youth Congress chief, had celebrated the acts of vandalism and even appeared to recommend that comparable actions must be carried out all throughout India. “Farmers have understood that the only way to get Modi to directly talk to them is through making Ambani feel pain,” he mentioned, earlier than including, “If this starts happening across India, Modiji will come running to Singhu Border.”
Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder had appealed to the ‘protesting farmers’ to not inconvenience most people by disrupting energy and destroying infrastructure. He had additionally urged the ‘protestors’ to not shut down connectivity and manhandle the telecom staff. However, the ‘protesting farmers’ didn’t pay any heed to the chief minister’s attraction. And now it seems even Congress leaders are cheering such lawlessness.
The ‘protestors’ have been concentrating on Reliance Jio towers due to claims that Reliance, in addition to Adani group, are out to take advantage of farmers with assist from the brand new farm legal guidelines. News company PTI citing sources mentioned that website managers had been slapped and abused for making an attempt to cease the protestors from destroying the infrastructure. Power traces had been snapped and makes an attempt had been made to axe the towers.