Chandigarh: Terming the Ludhiana bomb blast incident as the most shocking and dastardly act, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday said that forces inimical to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the state would never succeed in their nefarious designs with a sole motive to destabilize the state.
Condemning this unfortunate and tragic incident, CM Channi categorically said that everybody knows the timing and the handiwork of those forces, as the assembly polls are drawing nearer with every passing day, which were hell bent upon to hatch such conspiracies to disturb the hard earned peace and harmony in the state. He said, “It is the need of the hour to condemn such incidents in the harshest possible words by one and all.”
Giving directions to the Police authorities to carry on a detailed investigation to get into bottom of this cowardly and inhuman act, CM Channi reiterated his firm commitment to book the perpetrators of this heinous crime and give them an exemplary punishment as a deterrent for others not to commit such crime in future. CM Channi said that any such attempt to disturb the law and order situation in the state will be dealt with sternly.
Connecting the sequence of unfortunate attempt of recent incident of sacrilege at Sri Harmandir Sahib and now the bomb blast in Ludhiana court complex at this juncture, CM Channi said that all this indicates to several forces actively involved to create disturbances in the border state for their vested interests. He said that people of Punjab must remain vigilant to curb the unholy designs of such forces threatening the very ethos of communal harmony, peace, brotherhood and amity.