CHANDIGARH, Aug 17: Punjab Pradesh Congress chief Amarinder Singh has opposed the People's Commission set up by the Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab to probe the human rights violation in the state.Interestingly, the opposition to the commission had come first from Luxmi Kanta Chawla, the Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Amritsar, who has already announced the decision to stage demonstration against the panel during its next hearing. The BJP is part of the ruling combine in the state.Both the parties holding similar views on the issue is being ascribed to the sharing of the same vote bank by these parties.Amarinder Singh further said his party was not opposed to inquiry into terrorism as such but the People's Commission amounted to a state within the state. He felt the established judicial institutions should not be bypassed as it would damage the system.The Congress had forcefully raised the demand to set up a judicial probe in the last session of the Vidhan Sabha. The move was seen as an effort to put the ruling Akali Dal on the defensive as it was the poll promise of the party to order judicial probe into militancy.The PPCC chief felt the truth must be brought out and the initiative should have been taken by the state government. He said anybody could have filed a public interest litigation in the court seeking directions to the state government to order judicial probe.
