US flight landed in Amritsar, why not Delhi? AAP alleges bid to defame Punjab
Accusing the Centre of meting out step-motherly remedy to Punjab, the ruling Aam Aadmi Occasion has requested why the US plane that introduced again 104 unlawful Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar and never Delhi.
Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla additionally raised the identical query and slammed the Centre for not protesting the deportation of its residents.
The US navy aircraft landed on the Shri Guru Ramdas Ji Worldwide Airport in Amritsar at 1.55 pm on Wednesday. Of these deported, 33 every are from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three every from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Punjab AAP president and cupboard minister Aman Arora accused the Centre of meting out “step-motherly” remedy to Punjab on each problem.
“Deportees had been from throughout the nation. (Deportees) from different states had been greater than these from Punjab… (however) it (aircraft) landed in Amritsar. I’m not objecting to them coming right here however by leaving the nationwide capital and touchdown it (aircraft) in Amritsar… there may be substance in what you’re saying,” he stated when requested if there was a conspiracy to defame Punjab by touchdown the aircraft in Amritsar.
Amritsar MP Aujla echoed related sentiments on Thursday.
“Shameful & unacceptable! The Modi govt allowed Indian immigrants to be deported in shackles on a overseas navy plane. Why no protest? Why not a business flight? Why didn’t the aircraft land in Delhi? That is an insult to our individuals & our sovereignty. The govt. should reply,” Aujla stated in a publish on X.
Of the 30 unlawful immigrants hailing from Punjab, six are from Kapurthala, 5 from Amritsar, 4 every from Patiala and Jalandhar, two every from Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, SBS Nagar, and one every from Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Sangrur, SAS Nagar and Fatehgarh Sahib.
The 104 immigrants had been the primary such batch of Indians to be deported by the Trump administration as a part of a crackdown in opposition to unlawful immigrants.
The US motion got here simply days earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Washington to carry wide-ranging talks with President Donald Trump.
