Former Chief Minister and Congress candidate from Amritsar Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the attack on the party’s rural district office headquarters here yesterday and warned against vitiating peaceful atmosphere.Capt Amarinder dared the attackers if they had courage they should better confront him than stray around to scare his workers. He also asked the police to immediately arrest the culprits lest it be believed that they were having the police patronage.The former Chief Minister disclosed that some people fired gunshots at the rural unit office of the party here yesterday and when the Congress workers tried to chase them they fled the scene. He said, “it was an act of sheer cowardice aimed at scaring our workers who bravely and courageously tried to confront the attackers who fled after firing the gunshots”. He dared the attackers and those patronising them, “if you are so brave, better come and fire at me than on my workers”.
He pointed out, it is beyond any doubt who these people were and at whose behest they were acting. He hoped that the police will soon arrest them to expose them and ensure that such incidents are not allowed to happen again.The former Chief Minister warned that this was an indication of the things to come. He reiterated his demand that Amritsar be declared as the hyper-sensitive constituency as more such incidents were feared to take place as some Akali leaders were openly threatening of violence and had already shown their seriousness by attacking the Congress office.