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Chandigarh,August1,2005,UPDATED:5.30PM
Senior Congress leader and Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Thursday alleged that jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria had threatened to kill his son. Randhawa said he had reported the matter to the Punjab Director General of Police.
In a post on X, Randhawa wrote, “Jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuriya has threatened to kill my son. One of my associates met my son and within one hour of leaving, he was fired upon today.”
Randhawa, who is in New Delhi for the Parliament’s Monsoon Session, accused the AAP government of law and order failure. “Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal have turned Punjab into a gangster’s paradise where law and order has totally collapsed. No gangster can shake me!” he said.
Firing Incident
Speaking to reporters, Randhawa said the firing took place at a turban shop owned by one of his associates in Fatehgarh Churian, shortly after the associate had visited his son. Nobody was injured in the incident. Randhawa alleged that even from jail, Bhagwanpuria was issuing threats and said one of his associates had also received a threatening call.
He claimed objectionable comments were also repeatedly posted on his son’s social media page after the incident.
AAP Responds
AAP spokesperson Neel Garg urged Randhawa to share complete details of the incident so police could investigate. He said, “Everyone knows gangsters got patronage under previous Congress governments. The AAP government has zero tolerance towards gangsterism and has taken strict action by jailing gangsters and attaching their properties.”
Political Reactions
Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa said the incident reflected “a complete collapse of governance under the Bhagwant Mann government.” Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said, “A gangster has the audacity to threaten a senior INC leader from inside jail. Imagine the plight of ordinary people in Punjab. This shows the law and order situation has collapsed.”
Randhawa also criticised the state government, asking, “Where is their intelligence and cybercrime unit? If a common individual posts a photo with a gun, he is arrested immediately. Those who are openly threatening are left free. Where is Punjab’s law and order today?”
Bhagwanpuria, already an accused in the 2022 Sidhu Moosewala murder case, was detained earlier this year by the Narcotics Control Bureau under the PIT-NDPS Act and shifted from Bathinda Central Jail to Silchar Jail in Assam.
