Jobless youth hurls degree at CM’s car
Tuesday, 27/09/2016
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MUKTSAR: Upset over not being allowed to meet chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, an unemployed youth threw his degrees and certificates at the CM’s cavalcade at Badal village in Muktsar on Monday.
Dinesh Kumar, 25, a commerce graduate and a resident of Killinawali village, threw his certificates towards CM’s car as it came out from his farmhouse. The chief minister’s security staff immediately detained him. He was later let off with a warning, police officials said. His certificates were returned to him.
Dinesh had come to meet Badal to seek a job but the security staff did not let him in. “I am a commerce graduate and also have a good typing speed. I had no wrong intentions, but the security staff stopped me outside the CM’s residence,” he said.
The Akali Dal had promised 10 lakh jobs to the youth in its 2012 manifesto. ‘PAK SHOULD REFRAIN FROM PROVOKING WAR’
Meanwhile, speaking on the sidelines of a “sangat darshan” at in the Lambi constituency on Monday, Badal asked Pakistan to refrain from pushing India to war, saying that in such an event east and west Punjab on either side of the international border would suffer the most.
“Punjab on both sides of the border will have to bear the brunt in case a war takes place between India and Pakistan,” he said. On the Indus water treaty, Badal said the government of India would take a decision in the interest of the country and aim at protecting its integrity.
He said new fronts ahead of assembly elections in the state would have no affect on the state politics. The CM also rubbished Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh’s remark that there was a possibility of rigging electronic voting machines. “EVMs are handled by the election commission and there is not even the remotest possibility of tampering with them,” he said.
