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Held 3 hours, fined ₹50,000: AAP says CM Mann targeted at Delhi airport
The Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Tuesday that Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann was made to wait nearly three hours at Delhi airport on his return from Paris and then handed a ₹50,000 challan. Party spokesperson Baltej Pannu linked the episode to what he called 'tremendous pressure from above' and the Centre's repeated refusal of permission for Mann's foreign visits. The claim lands in the middle of a bitter pre-poll fight in Punjab.
BJP will form the next Punjab government and needs no ally, says Haryana CM Saini
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini predicts the BJP will form the next government in Punjab and rules out any pre-poll alliance there, accusing the AAP government of failing on drugs.