Ludhiana / The Times of India
Punjab's cabinet minister Hardeep Singh Mundian and AAP members protested in Ludhiana against the BJP's alleged attempts to divert Punjab's water resources to Haryana through the BBMB. Mundian asserted that the state government will resist this perceived injustice, accusing the BJP of conspiring to steal Punjab's water and threatening the state's agriculture and energy sectors.
Khanna police, collaborating with GLADA, demolished the illegally constructed houses of three drug traffickers in Dhamot Kalan village, Payal, as part of Punjab's anti-drug campaign. SSP Dr. Jyoti Yadav Bains emphasized the government's zero-tolerance policy towards drugs, highlighting multiple cases against the involved families under IPC and the NDPS Act.
Muslims in Ludhiana protested the Pahalgam terrorist attack, denouncing the killing of innocent tourists as un-Islamic and a crime against humanity. Led by Shahi Imam Maulana Muhammad Usman Rehmani Ludhianvi, demonstrators burned an effigy of terrorism and urged the Indian government to take strong action against the perpetrators.