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"I had asked the young boy to come and ask me a question. But when I gave him the mic, he abused
me. That is why I slapped him," the Pathankot MLA said, rationalising his actions.
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All India Reported by Mohammed Ghazali, Edited by Sumana Nandy Updated: October 21, 2021 8:54 pm IST

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New Delhi: Punjab Congress MLA Joginder Pal, who was caught on camera
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"This was a pre-planned incident. He is 14 years old and was drunk at the time, his
mother has said. The boy also admitted that he was drunk and has apologised.
So, I have forgiven him and the complaint against the boy has been withdrawn,"
the MLA further added.

The state government has released two videos - of the boy and his mother. "He
has made a mistake. He was drunk when he attended the political gathering," the
mother says in the video.

"I have made a mistake," the boy adds.

The incident took place in Pathankot's Bhoa area where the MLA was apparently
talking about the work he has overseen in the village. The boy, standing away
from the MLA, was caught on the video muttering and he was soon escorted
away from the venue by the police. However, he continued questioning the MLA
and, in an attempt to force a reaction from him, shouted, "What have you really
done?"

Although initially, the MLA calmly asked him to come up front and handed him the
microphone, he soon started brutally slapping and assaulting the boy. Worse, the
cop who initially tried to lead the man away joined in on the assault, as did the
half-a-dozen people standing around.

The unsavoury incident triggered a political row with the BJP declaring it showed
the Congress' "intolerant" nature.

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"After Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra turned out journalists from their PCs for
asking factual questions, it is turn of Joginder Singh, Congress MLA from Boha in
Pathankot, to thrash a young man black and blue for just questioning him. This is
the intolerant face of Congress," tweeted BJP's Amit Malviya leading the
pushback.

Punjab votes for a new government in a few months, with the

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(very) few states it still controls.

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