Overview
- At AAP’s first Maghi rally in about a decade, Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann said a Rs 1,000 monthly payment to every woman will be provided for in the upcoming state budget.
- Mann reiterated that a Special Investigation Team has recovered 169 of 328 missing saroops of the Guru Granth Sahib near Banga, noting 139 had no official record and stating they would be handed to the SGPC.
- The BJP held its first-ever Maghi conference, with Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini promoting a ‘double engine’ model and citing Haryana’s policies while party leaders attacked AAP over drugs, corruption and law and order.
- SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal accused AAP of colluding with Dera Sirsa head Gurmeet Ram Rahim over sacrilege cases and announced promises including free tubewell connections, Rs 10 lakh interest-free loans for youth and stricter action on gangsters and drug traffickers.
- Authorities reported deployment of over 6,000 police personnel for the three-day mela, and the Congress skipped rallies, citing the Akal Takht’s directive discouraging political events on the occasion.