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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA HS Phoolka resigned as a legislator from the Punjab Assembly on Friday, October 12, expressing unhappiness over the state government's alleged "failure" to initiate action against former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and retired DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in the sacrilege incidents.
However, Speaker Rana KP Singh is yet to take a call on the resignation, Assembly officials said.
Phoolka, who is fighting 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in courts at New Delhi, had been asking the state government to initiate action against Badal and Saini in connection with police firing on people protesting at Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan against sacrilege incidents.
According to the report of the Commission, that was set up to probe the sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib, Badal and Saini were "aware" of the proposed police action to disperse the protesters at Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura using force.
It held that the police opened fire in Behbal Kalan, where two people were killed, "without any warning and without taking permission from civil authorities".
In September, Phoolka had alleged that due procedure was not followed by the police before it opened fire on the protesters.
He said his resignation would put pressure on the state government to act on findings of the Justice (Retd) Ranjit Singh Commission.
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