25 May 2021
A health worker places a defunct ventilator in an Amritsar hospital amid the COVID-19 second wave on 14 May 2021. That month, news broke that hundreds of PM-CARES ventilators in Punjab were lying unused because they had not been installed or repaired. NARINDER NANU / AFP /Getty Images
A health worker places a defunct ventilator in an Amritsar hospital amid the COVID-19 second wave on 14 May 2021. That month, news broke that hundreds of PM-CARES ventilators in Punjab were lying unused because they had not been installed or repaired. NARINDER NANU / AFP /Getty Images
In May 2020, Gurpreet Singh Chandbaja, the founder of a non-profit that works with cancer patients, first raised the issue of unused ventilators at the Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, in Punjab’s Faridkot district. He spoke to the medical superintendent about the unused ventilators, which were among 809 units that the centre had allotted to Punjab under the PM-CARES
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Gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana wanted in connection with the Republic Day violence in the national capital openly addressed a farmers rally here on Tuesday, warning the Punjab Police against cooperating with the Delhi Police. At the meeting in Bathinda s Mehraj village, the state police was deployed to maintain law and order. When asked why the Punjab Police did not arrest him, Inspector General (Bathinda Range) Jaskaran Singh said their job was to maintain law and order. As per law, we cannot do that as we have not registered a case, he said. The Congress government in Punjab has been backing the agitation against the Centre s farm laws enacted last year. The gangster-turned-activist had given the call for the public meeting last week.
Wanted for Republic Day violence, Lakha Sidhana attends rally in Bathinda
When asked why the Punjab Police did not arrest him, Inspector General (Bathinda Range) Jaskaran Singh said their job was to maintain law and order.
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Farmers post flags on a dome of Red Fort after their tractor parade on Republic Day, in New Delhi. (Photo | PTI) By PTI
BATHINDA: Gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana wanted in connection with the Republic Day violence in the national capital openly addressed a farmers rally here on Tuesday, warning the Punjab Police against cooperating with the Delhi Police.
At the meeting in Bathinda s Mehraj village, the state police was deployed to maintain law and order.