AAP in Punjab | Mann under fire

As farmers' patience wears bladed and AAP's cardinal enactment tightens its grip connected Punjab's governance, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann faces a captious test

ALL EARS: AAP main Arvind Kejriwal with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann astatine an lawsuit successful New Delhi, Sept. 15

On Diwali eve, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) successful Punjab organised a protestation successful beforehand of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities portion office successful superior Chandigarh. The program was to divert the farmers’ ire towards the BJP-led cardinal government, blaming it for the tardy paddy procurement successful the state. The situation affects astir a cardinal farmers, with 11.9 cardinal tonnes of paddy languishing astatine workplace gates oregon successful mandis. The situation, described by experts arsenic the worst procurement situation successful 3 decades and being attributed to “bureaucratic incompetence”, threatens to disrupt the upcoming rabi wheat sowing play arsenic well.