Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi today dialled Congress chief Sonia Gandhi amid the huge controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security lapse. The Congress has been enmeshed in a major political face-off with the BJP over the incident which took place yesterday.
The BJP has accused the Congress of engineering the event along with the protesting farmers and the state police.
Farmers who blocked the road in Punjab leading to a hold-up of PM Modi's convoy yesterday and causing a major security scare, said they had no idea that he would be passing that way. Though informed by the police after they started their roadblock, they said they did not believe them. PM Modi, they said, should have just "sent someone and asked us to move".
"We thought the police were trying to remove us from the road. There is a helipad built for the PM that side so why would he come by the road? The police were trying to trick us, we thought," said Baldev Zira, one of the protesters, standing on the Ground Zero on the Moga-Ferozepur highway.
Yesterday, while on way to address a political rally in Ferozepur, PM Modi was stuck on a flyover in Punjab's Bathinda for around 20 minutes. Then security lapse has caused a major political conflagration between the BJP and the state's ruling Congress and the matter reached the Supreme Court today. The Punjab government has ordered an inquiry into it.
