Punjab hooch tragedy: Former Congress MLA Tarlochan Soondh asks CM to resign on moral ground

JALANDHAR: Former Congress MLA Tarlochan Singh Soondh has said that Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh should resign on moral grounds after near 100 deaths due to hooch tragedy in parts of Majha region.
“In place of employment in every household () it is reason of death (spurious liquor) that reached at people’s homes and in place of suspending the officials, Amarinder being head of the state should resign,” said Soondh, former MLA from Banga and former vice president of Punjab Congress, in a statement issued on Sunday.
“When you make a commitment you build a hope. When you keep it, you build trust but when you knowingly break it, then it pardonable by your own conscience, by the Almighty, by the people with whom you have made the commitment,” he said.
The former Congress MLA, who contested last assembly election as a rebel but lost and was then taken back in party fold during parliament elections, also argued that following Sikh ethos Amarinder should set an example that a Sikh CM resigned on moral ground after he could not fulfill his oath taken on Gurbani (to end drug menace in Punjab) and it would earn him a respectable place in the history.
Addressing the CM in his statement, Soondh said, “If senior Congress leaders like Partap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo speak out on the issue, they are saying it for yours and party’s benefit. Late Darbara Singh had resigned on the same night after six bus passengers were killed by terrorists on October 5, 1983.”