AMRITSAR: The Beant Singh government gave proof of its growing intolerance to criticism and intra party rivalry when apparently on its orders the district administration did not allow the Youth Congress program of burning the effigy of the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mis Benjzir Bhulto and dissidem Congress MP, Jameel Singh Brar, to hold a rally here

Brar was arrested along with his few supporters by the Tam Taran police in fear of breach of peace. ‘The police took the plea that since both the diametrically opposite camps were to assembly at the Jallianwala Bagh with their timings also coinciding, not allowing both the rallies, were in the public interests to avert a possible clash.

Article extracted from this publication >>  September 9, 1994