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ongress condemns utter failure of SAD-BJP to curb road raeading to loss of 18 valuable lives in the Moga highway hor

accident yesterday.

andigarh 8 May (Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal) - Congress shares the grief and irreparable lossuable human lives of two families in a road accident yesterday at Moga. The sole responhis massive human loss lies squarely on the state govt. as it has miserably failed to bring nda, the burning issue of streamlining traffic chaos in the state.As we are aware, more

0 people die on the roads in Punjab annually. Despite our repeated demands to curb roadh an iron hand, both within and outside the Vidhan Sabha for several years, the govt. has tomplete blind eye to this issue. The CM and other VIPs continue to travel safely on theh escort and pilot vehicles around them, while the poor and ordinary citizens are left rcy of god on the roads in Punjab. There may be hardly any family in the state that has noear and dear one in highway horrors.It is also saddening to note that the voters of Punjabo put such burning issues on the back burners while deciding the fate of Punjab. Immens of money and drugs have taken priority with the voter over issue based politics, henceidents, crumbling education and health care, corruption, nepotism and misrule continue t

roost. Politics of votes, caste, colour, creed and religion dominate the functioning of theP govt.The vehicular traffic in Punjab is reflection of Jungle Raj with no will on the partce to curb this menace. Our laws nee to be amended without further delay particularly s-A of the IPC. At present the offence is bailable on the spot, hence there is no fear in the mash and negligent drivers. A minimum of six months jail is required for those who kill pto rash driving on the roads. We need much stricter penalty for drunken driving, driving w

nse, underage drivers etc. The whole system of issuing driving licenses through toutnts without any driving tests needs to be done away with immediately. The traffic policre spectators and often stop vehicles merely to seek illegal gratification from violators o

do not catch the real guilty. Controlling deaths due to accidents is something which c

ily prevented if appropriate attention is payed by the govt.Therefore, the Congress demacial inquiry into the accident killing 18 persons and urges the govt. to adequately compeaggrieved families, as Rs. 1 Lac ex- gratia grant per deceased is nothing but a cruel

ngress also urges the govt. to wake up from slumber and enforce the rule of law on roae precious human lives will continue to be lost.

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