NAWANSHEHAR: The entire opposition of Punjab on Friday came together to seek arrest of accused in murder of Sandeep a youth from Balachaur who was found murdered on May 28. The residents of the area have launched an aggitation for the arrest of culprits.

The agitation got a fillip today when senior opposition leaders of the state including former CM Capt Amrinder Singh, CPM state secretary Prof Balwant Singh, SAD(A) chief Simranjit Singh Mann , CITU state general secretary Raghunath Singh, senior CPI state leaders Joginder Dyal and Bhupinder Sambhar, senior Dalit leader Shingara Ram Sahungra, Bir Devinder Singh and Rana K.P Singh of congress,  joined hands to demand the arrest of the murderers.

Addressing a rally at Dana Mandi in Balachaur, Amarinder Singh and other leaders lambasted the state government and the Punjab police for their failure to nab the culprits, allegedly the employers of the deceased, even after 35 days of the murder. They further accused the ruling alliance of sheltering the accused. The opposition leades threatened to launch a statewide agitation in case the accused were not arrested soon.

It needs to be mentioned here that the people of Balachaur are pressing for the arrest of the accused and have been holding dharnas and rallies since the day of murder. Though earlier, the leaders of the ruling and the opposition parties of area were united in demanding the arrest of the culprits under the banner of an Action Committee, later the ruling alliance had dissociated itself from the Action Committee and had formed its own Nigran Committee to pursue the case. As the Nawanshahr police had failed to arrest the accused even after three weeks, on the demand of these committees, the enquiry of the case was later shifted to SSP Hoshiarpur.