Chandigarh: Days after gunshots were fired at a statue of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in Dabwali town of Haryana’s Sirsa district, his mother Charan Kaur has called it ``an attack on his soul’’.
Expressing her shock and sorrow over the incident, Kaur said in her Instagram post in Punjabi on Tuesday that it was an attack on his memory and a wound to her soul.
It may be recalled that Moosewala was shot dead allegedly by the Lawrence Bishnoi gang on May 29, 2022, in Punjab’s Mansa village. He had joined Congress party in December, 2021, a year before he unsuccessfully fought Punjab assembly polls in March, 2022, on Congress ticket.
Kaur said her son remained the voice of the people’s right and an attempt is being made to silence him even after his passing. The guilty will definitely be punished for their action, she said.
It may be recalled that gunshots were fired at the statue of Moosewala a few days ago causing a sensation on social media. The statue had been installed by Haryana’s Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Digvijay Chautala last year in Sawantkheda village of Dabwali town. According to media reports, a video clip sent to Digvijay from a foreign phone number on July 29 last, showed firing on the statue.
However, media reports also held that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang had claimed responsibility for firing at the statue stating that it warned the people who had installed the statue and giving Moosewala the status of a martyr and misleading the public will face dire consequences.
