Chandigarh November 29:
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh today strongly opposed any move to hand over the historic Maharaja Ranjit Singh Fort at Phillaur to Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
In a statement issued here today, Capt Amarinder Singh said the Punjab Police had been maintaining the Fort exceedingly well and any move to hand it over to ASI would not be in any way helpful or beneficial to preserve this monument.
He said several monument sites which had been taken over by the ASI in the past had gone from bad to worse. ''Most of the monuments under their possession were in a dilapidated condition,'' he said and added that the Fort at Phillaur was being managed, maintained and preserved so well by the Punjab Police.
The former Chief Minister said the condition of the historic Bathinda Fort, where Razia Sultan was imprisoned, and which was with the ASI was quite pitiable thanks to the carelessness of the ASI. ''The Bathinda Fort is collapsing wall by wall and we do not want the same thing to happen to the Phillaur Fort''. Capt Amarinder Singh said the Phillaur Fort was with the Punjab Police Academy since 1891. ''The association itself is historic and it is being maintained so well I don't think the ASI can maintain it in any better manner''.
He regretted that the ASI was not able to maintain important monuments which were in its possession in Punjab with the result that these were getting dilapidated with the passage of time.
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