Moga, October 1After months of speculation over his joining active politics, former Director General of Police, Punjab, Paramdeep Singh Gill, is set to lift the curtain on his political plans in Moga on Sunday.
After his retirement and his subsequent elevation to the post of Advisor to the Home and Justice Department, Gill is reaching Moga tomorrow where he will meet people at a large gathering and take part in a ‘road show’.
And to ‘welcome’ him, over 5,000 people (nay voters) of the Moga assembly constituency are expected to gather in an open ground, situated behind a private hospital that is owned by Mickey Gill, a cousin of the former DGP.
With such a large gathering of supporters, the former DGP is scheduled to lead the road show.
On Saturday, a large number of Gill’s supporters in Moga were seen gearing up for Sunday’s show of strength. Many policemen were also on their toes in assisting Gill’s supporters in mobilizing more and more Akali workers from various villages of the Moga assembly constituency.
Sources revealed that Gill’s ‘welcome visit’ to Moga is a show of political strength but Mickey Gill, his cousin and confidant, denied that there was any programme or arrangements for a ‘road show’. Mickey Gill, however, said that as PS Gill is coming to his home town after retirement, so, no doubt, he would receive a grand welcome.
“Ours is a Moga-based big family and our family has a political history in Moga. So the gathering in the welcome visit would definitely be huge,” said Mickey.
Nachattar Singh Gill, the father of Paramjit Singh Gill was an MLA and was gunned down by the militants during turbulent times of terrorism in Punjab.
Sources revealed that as per the scheduled programme, the Akali workers and supporters would walk on foot behind the vehicles of the former DGP and would declare their support for him. The road show would begin from the hospital and would move to the bazaars of the city before finally concluding at the Gurudwara Sahib Akalsar Sahib.
The former DGP would pay obeisance at the Gurudwara Sahib and then all the supporters would reach an open ground behind the hospital for lunch and narrate their grievances to Gill.
“It is a brazen misuse of state power and the police force to horde more and more people for this road show,” alleged Joginder Pal Jain, Congress MLA from Moga.
Snehdeep Sharma, SSP Moga, denied that the police had anything to do with any political rally or road show. “The police would be on law and order duty, nothing else,” he claimed.
However, Jain alleged that it was the Moga police which was mainly making arrangements for this political function and a large number of police men were put on duty to bring and mobilize people for the show.
Source:TNS
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