Overview

• SKM constituents mounted coordinated three-hour sit-ins at district administrative complexes across 23 Punjab districts and submitted memoranda to authorities, including one to the Prime Minister via the Mohali deputy commissioner.
• They called for a judicial inquiry under a sitting Supreme Court judge to fix responsibility on officials and political leaders, naming the state government, the Centre and the Bhakra Beas Management Board.
• Leaders alleged authorities failed to release water in a planned way, cited a massive Ranjit Sagar Dam discharge linked to gate failures at Madhopur Headworks, and pointed to silted reservoirs and weak embankments.
• The memorandum sought quantified relief: Rs 70,000 per acre for damaged crops, Rs 25 lakh plus a government job for each bereaved family, Rs 20 lakh for fully damaged houses, and Rs 1 lakh per cow or buffalo, with support for labourer families and free seed and fertiliser.
• Unions pressed for the floods to be declared a national calamity with a Rs 25,000‑crore package, demanded transparency over the state’s Rs 12,000‑crore disaster fund, urged desilting and anti‑mining measures, and opposed punitive stubble‑burning action without adequate support.