Vacating villages causing panic, why only Punjab singled out, not nearby states: AAP

Hours after news of the strike Thursday, families from Dauke village in Amritsar leave for safer areas. (Source: Rana Simranjit Singh)

The AAP today claimed that over 950 villages have been vacated in Punjab following the anti-terror strike by the army across the LOC and questioned
why is it being done in the state alone as it was leading to panic there. AAP leader H S Poolkha said villages are being vacated at a time when crops are at a stage of maturity and harvest is about to start. Alleging that villages in Punjab alone are being vacated, he questioned why is the state being singled out when there is “no such movement in neighbouring Rajasthan and Gujarat”.

“People are going through lot of hardship. Their animals, belongings are left behind. Crops at stage of maturity and harvesting is about to start. Why only in Punjab? “There is no such move in Rajasthan and Gujarat. There is no war and neither such chances at present moment,” the AAP leader said. He said surgical strikes can go even deep to cities. “We expect the government to explain why this panic only in Punjab. Pathankot attack was on airbase and not on civilians,” the senior lawyer said.

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People living within 10 kms of the border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab have been asked to shift to safer places and schools ordered to be shut till further notice in the wake of surgical strike carried out by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC).