Punjab 2022: AAP storms to power, law and order deteriorates, Moose Wala killed

The AAPs thumping victory in the Punjab Assembly polls the murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala in Mansa and the tussle between Raj Bhavan and Bhagwant Mann government over several issues dominated the year 2022The year also witnessed Prime Minister Narendra Modis convoy getting stuck for a few minutes on a flyover in Ferozepur due to a protestThe people of Punjab voted for badlav change in the February assembly polls as the Aam Aadmi Party AAP stormed to power in the state for the first time decimating the Congress and the SADBSP combineAlso read Yearender 2022 Three spinechilling murders that shocked the entire countryThe Arvind Kejriwalled party bagged 92 seats in the 117member state assembly as it turned out to be a defining moment in the border state in 2022Nearly nine months into the office the Bhagwant Mann government may have patted its back over giving 300 units a month of free electricity offering over 20000 government jobs and action against graft but the AAP dispensation faced Oppositions ire over deteriorating law and order in the stateTwo rocketpropelled grenade attacks at Punjab Polices intelligence headquarters in Mohali and Tarn Taran police station while frequent movements of drones from across the border carrying narcotics and weapons targeted killings and extortion threats by gangsters posed serious challenges for security agencies in the stateThe brutal murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in Mansa in May sent shock waves in the state The investigation into his murder found the involvement of Lawrence Bishnoi gang that got the singer eliminated in retaliation to the murder of youth Akali leader Vicky MiddukheraCanadabased gangster Goldy Brar a member of the Bishnoi gang was the mastermind behind the killing police said Four shooters were arrested while two were neutralized by police in connection with the caseIn January Prime Minister Modi had to return from pollbound Punjab without attending an event and a rally in Ferozepur after his convoy was stranded on a flyover due to a blockade by farm protesters which was seen as a major security lapseChief Minister Mann in May sacked health minister Dr Vijay Singla from his Cabinet over corruption charges in barely two months after the AAP came to power riding on the agenda of corruptionfree governanceIn July Mann turned groom when he married Gurpreet Kaur a doctor from Haryanas Kurukshetra This was 49yearold Manns second marriage who separated from his first wife in 2015The victory of AAP in the assembly polls forced leaders like Parkash Singh Badal Amarinder Singh Sukhbir Badal Charanjit Singh Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu to bite the dustFormer CM Amarinder Singh whose party Punjab Lok Congress failed to make any mark in the polls later joined the BJPHowever the ruling AAP got a shocker in June when it lost the Sangrur Lok Sabha bypoll to SAD Amritsar candidate and Khalistan proponent Simranjit Singh MannPunjabs health minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra came under fire after he was seen forcing the Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences BFUHSto lie on a dirty mattress at a hospital Raj Bahadur tendered his resignation as VC after he felt humiliatedIn September the AAP accused the BJP of offering Rs 2025 crore each to its seven to 10 MLAs in Punjab under its Operation Lotus in a bid to topple the Bhagwant Mann governmentLater part of the year the squabble between Raj Bhavan and the AAP government over holding a special session of Vidhan Sabha and appointment of vicechancellor of Punjab Agricultural University too made the headlinesGovernor Banwarilal Purohit thwarted the Bhagwant Mannled regimes plan to summon a special assembly session in September to bring a confidence motion after he withdrew his order of summoning itLater when the governor asked for details of the legislative business to be taken up in the proposed assembly session it evoked sharp reaction from CM Mann who said its too muchPurohit while reminding the CM of his duties wrote to him and said he appeared to be too much angry with himThe tussle between Raj Bhavan and AAP government escalated when Purohit declined appointment of noted cardiologist Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander as VC of BFUHS and also sought removal of PAU VC S S Gosal while dubbing it as totally illegalThe targeted killings of Shiv Sena Taksali leader Sudhir Suri in Amritsar a Dera Sacha Sauda follower in Faridkot and later a cloth merchant in Jalandhar gave enough fodder to the Opposition to attack the AAP government while seeking resignation of CM Mann who holds the home portfolioA students protest rocked the Chandigarh University in Mohali following allegations that a hosteller recorded several objectionable videos of women students in the common washroomFormer Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu was sent to jail in May after being sentenced to oneyear rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road rage death caseThe Mann government came under sharp attack in April after it lodged FIRs against BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga for allegedly making provocative statements and promoting enmity and former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas over his inflammatory statements against KejriwalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever