Overview
- Punjab BJP, which filed a complaint Thursday, asked police to charge Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann with sedition for saying the BJP was behind recent blasts.
- A delegation led by state chief Sunil Jakhar submitted the complaint at Punjab Police headquarters in Chandigarh, where Special DGP A S Rai met them.
- The party said it will write to the Union government seeking a National Investigation Agency review of the chief minister’s statement.
- Jakhar alleged Arvind Kejriwal and AAP are running a coordinated plan to provoke communal unrest in Punjab for political gain.
- Police chief Gaurav Yadav has pointed to Pakistan’s ISI or ISI-backed actors as possible culprits in the two blasts near the BSF’s Jalandhar headquarters and an Army camp in Amritsar, a stance that contrasts with Mann’s accusation against the BJP.