Chandigarh, Apr 13 (UNI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Sunday dared Leader of Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa to prove his "50 bombs in Punjab" claim, even as the senior Congress leader said he would not reveal his source and asked the CM to wake up from his "Kumbhakarni sleep" and handle the "deteriorating" security situation in Punjab.
Earlier, Mann, in a video message, questioned how could Bajwa claim that 50 bombs have been brought into the state and out of them 18 were used, and 32 remain to be exploded, when the state as well as Central Intelligence Agencies have no such information.
Mann asked whether Bajwa's source of information was from Pakistan? He said that Bajwa and his party Congress should come clean, adding that if the claim was intended to spread fear, then action would be taken against him.
Senior Punjab Police officials reached the Chandigarh residence of the LoP and questioned
him about his claim.
After senior officials from Punjab Police counter intelligence wing questioned him, Bajwa told the media that he would not reveal his source.
Bajwa said that he was holding a constitutional post and in the past has been cabinet minister too, and he had sources in the state as well as the Central Agencies besides in the foreign ministry.
Bajwa said that his source asked him to be careful as the atmosphere in Punjab was "becoming sensitive" because his (Bajwa's) own family was attacked during the terrorism period.
He claimed that he had cooperated with the police, maintaining that he would not reveal his source.
He said that by alerting about the bombs, he was only trying to assist the government, which was his duty as a Leader of Opposition.
Bajwa told Chief Minister Mann to wake up from "Kumbhakarni sleep" and handle the situation in Punjab which was "becoming out of control".
Notably, incidents of mild-intensity explosions have occurred in the recent past across Punjab, the last being outside former minister and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Manoranjan Kalia's house.
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