Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday visited hospitals and met with those injured in Friday’s train accident.
At civil hospital in Amritsar, Vicky Sanotra, who lost his 17-year-old son Vasu Sanotra asked Sidhu if the Minister would accompany him to register an FIR against the local Congress councillor, who was the main organiser of the Dussehra event.
Sidhu, who has been facing flak from the opposition parties over the incident as his wife Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu was the chief guest at the Dussehra celebration at Jora Phatak in Dhobi Ghat area, replied, “Bhai, iss baare mein hum baithkar baat karenge (Brother, we will sit and talk about this later).”
Sidhu is MLA from Amritsar East, in which Dhobi Ghat ground is located.
Dr Navjot Kaur stated that she was finding out if the organisers had taken the requisite permission for the event or not.
Meanwhile, the police maintained that the permission was given for events at 20 places in Dhobi Ghat. “We gave permission for a certain event in a certain area, now obviously there is no permission to be on the tracks or anything. Lapses are under inquiry. We had security for the whole city including the main venue and the function venue,” said Amritsar Commissioner of Police SS Shrivastava.
