Will stand like rock between radicals, common people: Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu

The Ludhiana MP said his party will stand as a rock between the radicals and common people.

Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu.

Reacting to the “appointment” of Beant Singh assassin Jagtar Singh Hawara as Akal Takht Jathedar, the Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, who is the grandson of the slain Punjab CM, said “pro-Khalistan” agencies from Pakistan were backing the Sikh radicals. He also said the Hindus of the state have once again started living in fear.

“Today, those agencies working to bring unrest and militancy back in Punjab were successful in their first step,” Bittu said.

He termed Hawara’s “appointment” as Jathedar was not only a “mockery” of his grandfather’s martrydom but that “Hindus living in Punjab have once again come under tremendous fear”. “Hindus and Sikhs have always shared brotherhood and that is where the strength of Punjab lies. Thousands, including my grandfather, sacrificed their lives for this peace. Today, those Khalistani agencies from Pakistan, who are behind radicals like SAD (Amritsar) chief Simranjit Singh Mann have appointed a hardcore militant as Akal Takht jathedar.”

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The Ludhiana MP said his party will stand as a rock between the radicals and common people.

“Now, it is a direct war between secular and fundamentalists, between tolerance and intolerance. I will ensure that Congress stands as a rock between the radicals and common people who want peace,” Bittu 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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