New Delhi: A day after Rahul Gandhi slammed a journalist by asking him whether he works for the government after being questioned over disruption caused by the opposition in the parliament, the senior Congress leader lost his cool yet again, lashing out at the media today for asking him about the Punjab lynching incidents.Responding to the question, Gandhi asserted in Hindi, ‘don’t speak on behalf of the BJP’.
This comes a day after he had lost control during a media interaction when media personnel had said what the government has been saying over Parliament order.Gandhi replied, ‘aap sarkaar ke liye kaam karte hai kya? (do you work for the Government)’. Fuming over the journalist, the former Congress chief said that it is the government’s responsibility to keep Parliament in order and not the opposition’s.
Punjab was rocked with two incidents of mob lynchings linked to sacrilege last week. Two persons lost their lives in the two separate cases after angry mobs ruthlessly thrashed them to their deaths on the suspicion of committing sacrilege. Punjab is currently under the rule of the Congress government, headed by chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Punjab lynching
On December 18, a man was seen jumping across the railings inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple, caught in time before an alleged sacrilege attempt and beaten to death thereafter. Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa constituted a Special Investigation Team headed by the Amritsar DCP to probe the possible conspiracy behind this act of sacrilege.
A day later, an unidentified person was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of disrespecting the Nishan Sahib – the Sikh religious flag, at a Gurudwara located on the Kapurthala-Subhanpur road in Nizampur village of Punjab.
However, Jalandhar IG GS Dhillon revealed that the police had not found any evidence of desecration of Nishan Sahib and Guru Granth Sahib in Kapurthala.
When confronted with this revelation, Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi refrained from giving a categorical response and merely affirmed that the investigation is underway.
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