Explain urgency behind evacuation, says Amarinder Singh

Amarinder Singh questioned that if trade with Pakistan can continue uninterrupted, then why were farmers being stopped and village residents being harassed by creating “undue panic”.

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Speaking at his Halke Vich Captain programmes at Raikot and Payal of Ludhiana, Captain said, “The government should have waited and watched the situation closely before ordering this evacuation. (Source: File)

After senior AAP leader HS Phoolka and former CLP leader Sunil Jakhar, Captain Amarinder Singh questioned government’s move to evacuate border villages in Punjab on Saturday.

Terming it as a decision taken in ‘haste’, Captain questioned that if trade with Pakistan can continue uninterrupted, then why were farmers being stopped and village residents being harassed by creating “undue panic”.

He demanded that government especially CM Parkash Singh Badal must explain the ‘emergency compulsions’ which led to this decision in Punjab. “We demand adequate compensation for the displaced persons who have rather been forced to do so,” he said.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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