Sisodia seeks action against mining mafia after Punjab MLA attacked
New Delhi, June 21: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday demanded strong action from Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh over attack on an AAP MLA in Punjab by the mining mafia.
"Our MLA from Punjab Amarjeet Singh Sandoa was attacked by the mining mafia today. Mining mafia is ruling in the Captain Amarinder Singh's governance, the same way it used to rule in the BJP governance.
"Despite being in the opposition, our MLAs keeping their lives on the line against the mining mafia. Do something Captain," Sisodia said in a tweet.
Sandoa was injured on Thursday after he and his security personnel were attacked by sand mafia goons in Punjab's Ropar district where he had gone to see an illegal sand mining site.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national spokesperson Ashish Khaitan said that Amarinder Singh should take strict action against the mining mafia in Punjab or resign.
Seeking a white paper on the loss suffered by Punjab in the last 15 years due to illegal mining,
Khaitan also accused Amarinder Singh of casual approach towards the "mafia".
"Amarinder Singh himself once saw (illegal) mining while he was in his helicopter and ordered his officials to take an immediate action. But it has been one-and-a-half years since the Congress came to power and illegal mining is still done openly," he said.
He said the MLA had stopped illegal mining four months earlier in the same village.
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Pick-up vehicle topples in Yadgir; one field worker dead, over 12 others injured
Yadgir: A pick-up vehicle that was taking labourers to work toppled on the outskirts of Dharmapura village in Gurumitkal taluk here, resulting in the death of a woman worker, while more than 12 other workers sustained injuries.
The deceased worker is identified as Mogalamma (22), a resident of Itakal in Sedam taluk, Kalaburagi district. The injured workers are reportedly under treatment at hospitals in Yadgir and Raichur.
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Mogalamma and the other workers are learned to have been employed in a cotton farm near Dharmapura village and were traveling in the vehicle to the field when the accident occurred.
