Sidhu Moose Wala’s final rites on Tuesday, mourners collect at slain Punjab singer’s residence amid protests throughout state

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: Several mourners gathered on the residence of slain Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala in Punjab’s Mansa district on Tuesday morning because the household ready to conduct his final rites.

Accompanied by some kinfolk, Moose Wala’s father acquired his son’s physique from Mansa Civil hospital, the place it was stored for autopsy, round 8:15 am.

The physique has been taken to his residence at Moosa village in Mansa.

The final rites of Moosewala, who was killed on Sunday, might be carried out on Tuesday.

A heavy police pressure has been deployed outdoors the residence of the slain Punjabi singer.

Mourners, particularly the youth and the singer’s followers, assembled outdoors the home to pay their final respects.

Several folks raised slogans in his favour.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, referred to as Sidhu Moosewala, was shot useless on Sunday by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district, a day after the state authorities curtailed his safety cowl.

His cousin and a good friend, who had been travelling in a Mahindra Thar jeep with him, had been additionally injured within the assault.

The 28-year-old Punjabi singer had fought the current meeting election in Punjab on a Congress ticket from Mansa and was defeated by the AAP’s Vijay Singla.

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Moosewala was among the many 424 folks whose safety was withdrawn or curtailed by the Punjab Police on Saturday on a short lived foundation.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday introduced organising a judicial fee headed by a sitting excessive court docket choose to probe the brutal killing of Sidhu Moosewala.

The state police on Monday claimed to have rounded up some suspects and obtained necessary leads in reference to the killing.

It had termed the assassination a case of an inter-gang rivalry and that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was behind the killing.

Congress on Monday demanded a probe by a central company such because the CBI or the NIA monitored by a excessive court docket choose.

Congress spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil demanded solutions from the AAP authorities in Punjab, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on why the order downgrading Moosewala’s safety was made public on social media as a “publicity stunt” and on what grounds was his safety downgraded.

He alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities has completely failed in Punjab and that legislation and order has turn out to be a casualty within the state.

Gohil stated because of the Punjab authorities’s inept dealing with of the law-and-order scenario, the younger lifetime of a promising singer was misplaced and people liable for it needs to be punished.

He expressed ache and disappointment over Moose Wala’s killing, saying no authorities can convey somebody again to life.

“My question is on whose assessment was the security of Sidhu Moosewala downgraded? The government should answer,” Gohil stated whereas declaring that every time safety is supplied to anybody, it’s carried out on the idea of a risk notion made by safety companies.

“Why was the order for security downgrading of Moosewala made public on social media? Why was the issue of Sidhu Moosewala’s security downgrading used by a political party as a publicity stunt?” the Congress chief requested.

He alleged that the difficulty of legislation and order is just not being taken critically by the AAP authorities because the Punjab DGP had earlier stated Moosewala’s killing was a results of a “gang war” however later, apologised over the remarks.

It solely reveals how critically legislation and order is being taken by the AAP authorities in Punjab, Gohil stated.

“We demand that the family’s desire for holding an inquiry by a sitting judge should be acceded to. We demand that there should be a thorough and independent investigation by the CBI or the NIA and it should be supervised by a high court judge to ascertain the truth behind the killing,” he added.

The matter on who ordered the downgrading of Moosewala’s safety and on whose advice it was carried out must also be investigated and the responsible needs to be punished, Gohil stated.

“There should be an independent investigation under the supervision of a high court judge, a demand put forth by Moosewala’s family too,” he added.

Punjab is on the forefront within the nation when it comes to progress, service within the Army and patriotism and the state has its personal identification, however because of the scenario prevailing there over the previous few days, legislation and order has turn out to be a casualty and everyone seems to be pained over it, the Congress chief stated.

He stated Congress employees in Punjab, Delhi and Jammu have protested in opposition to the AAP authorities in Punjab over the killing of Moosewala, who had contested the state Assembly polls held earlier this yr on a Congress ticket.

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Congress demanded Mann’s resignation over Moose Wala’s killing.

“When a public figure is murdered in broad daylight on the streets of Punjab, is anybody really safe? Bhagwant Mann once said it is the CM’s duty to protect all those in Punjab. Today, he has failed in his duty,” the social gathering wrote on Twitter, utilizing the hashtag #ResignBhagwantMann.

Stepping up the assault on the AAP authorities, the Punjab Youth Congress additionally held a protest in opposition to the ruling social gathering.

Several protesters had been detained after they tried to “gherao” the workplace of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) right here.

The well-known Punjabi singer and Congress chief Moosewala was shot useless on Sunday by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district, a day after the state authorities pruned his safety cowl.

Meanwhile, Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring stated a “frightening” ambiance is prevailing throughout the state after the brutal daylight homicide of Moose Wala.

“Nobody is feeling safe as this government has left people at the mercy of criminals and gangsters who are killing people at their sweet will,” he stated in a press release right here.

He stated it was a “complete failure” of the federal government, significantly the police, as they didn’t have any clue concerning the homicide of a distinguished determine.

After assembly relations of the slain singer in Mansa, Warring stated the best way the homicide was executed with so many individuals firing from completely different sides, it should have been duly deliberate prematurely.

“What was the Punjab Police doing,” he requested whereas including that there could be so many individuals concerned within the planning and execution of the homicide and but police couldn’t get any inkling of the incident prematurely.

Warring stated the daring daylight assassination had created an environment of worry and fright throughout the state amongst people who find themselves not feeling protected anymore.

“Added to that was the DGP Punjab’s admission that the killing was the handiwork of the gangsters,” he stated.

The DGP himself admits that the gangsters are able to execute such a daring assassination of such a distinguished particular person with out getting caught, he stated.

The state Congress president reiterated his demand for the dismissal of the Aam Aadmi Party authorities, saying, “Bhagwant Mann has not just proved to be a failure but a complete disaster pushing the state to virtual anarchy.”

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Warring warned in case the gangster tradition is just not nipped within the bud, “Punjab will turn into badlands like some other states of the country used to be in the past”.

BJP nationwide common secretary Tarun Chugh additionally hit out on the Bhagwant Mann-led authorities and stated, “It has been a complete collapse of the AAP government’s intelligence and security network that has been reflected in more than two dozen murder incidents involving public figures.”

Chugh stated CM Mann, who holds the portfolio of Home affairs, owes an evidence to the state why details about safety was made public.

“Are you looking for cheap publicity making the border state vulnerable to the Pakistan ISI designs,” he requested.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal stated youth icon Moose Wala wouldn’t have been misplaced however for the mistaken selections of the AAP authorities.

He stated the chief minister had not solely taken a unilateral resolution to withdraw Moose Wala’s safety but additionally marketed this truth on the AAP Facebook web page by asserting that this was a victory in opposition to the VVIP tradition.

“This kind of cheap politics is condemnable,” stated Badal.