Overview
- Rakesh Trehan, known as Raja D King, has set a public giveaway called an 'iPhone Langar' for September 22 that will award 10 iPhones drawn from a pool of 1,000 people from Chandigarh and Mohali.
- Trehan says the device models will be iPhone 17 and newer and that winners will be selected by live name-draws conducted in front of media and the public.
- Participation requires members to write ‘Jai Mata Di’ once each day until they receive a phone and organisers say compliance will be monitored and non-compliance will lead to ineligibility.
- The plan follows a disrupted August ‘petrol langar’ in Chandigarh where heavy rain and police intervention halted distribution, raising concerns about crowd management, public order and event logistics for the September 22 exercise.
- Trehan says the September 22 giveaway is an initial exercise and that distributions will be expanded to about 10 more Punjab cities with a next date to be announced around October 5, which will test how authorities and organisers handle safety and transparency at larger scale.