Led by the Congress' state unit chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, the party workers staged the protest outside the office of Rupnagar senior superintendent of police (SSP) and raised slogans against the Bhagwant Mann government.
Kejriwal said India will progress if every state starts learning from the good work done by others. "It will be wrong to say that only we have done good work.
Former Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said he considered Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann his younger brother who will support the fight against the mafia.
The former Punjab Congress chief claimed the law and order situation in Punjab had "deteriorated drastically" under Mann's government with 40 people killed in a month.
Kumar Vishwas, a former confidante of Arvind Kejriwal, had kicked up a controversy during assembly elections by alleging that the AAP national convenor was ‘ready to take support’ from fringe and separatist elements to win the Punjab elections.
UK MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi had criticised the Indian government's revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kejriwal on Saturday in Delhi had said that after the formation of the AAP government in Punjab, several "big mafias" approached him, Mann, ministers, party MLAs and leaders seeking favours by offering bribe.
Providing free electricity to every household for up to 300 units is one of the major promises made by AAP in Punjab in the Assembly elections that concluded last month.
Among the IPS officers who have been shuffled is the DIG of the newly formed Anti-Gangster Task Force, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, who has been transferred and posted as the DIG of Rupnagar Range, replacing Arun Kumar Mittal.
This comes after SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said that he didn't want to speak for some time and wanted to give a free rein to the new government, but Bhagwant Mann's actions were intolerable today.
Mandi is the home constituency of incumbent Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. Elections in Himachal are due later this year along with Gujarat.
Earlier on Saturday, Chief Minister Khattar had condemned Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party govt in Punjab for bringing a resolution seeking the transfer of Chandigarh to the state.
During their visit to the Swaminarayan Temple on Sunday, Kejriwal and Mann were accompanied by Gujarat AAP leaders including Isudan Gadhvi and Gopal Italia.
Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann earlier in the day visited the Sabarmati Ashram as part of their two-day visit to the city and paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.
CM Mann claimed that he met Rajnath Singh and had asked him to deduct the money from his MPLAD in return of a written statement that Punjab isn't a part of the country and took the military on rent from India.
In the past, the House has passed a number of resolutions urging the Central government to transfer Chandigarh to Punjab
Central Govt has been stepwise imposing officers and personnel from other states and services in Chandigarh administration. This goes against the letter and spirit of Punjab Reorganisation Act 1966. Punjab will fight strongly for its rightful claim over Chandigarh, CM Bhagwant Mann said on Monday.
Mann said the Arvind Kejriwal government had started this scheme in Delhi too, "but unfortunately it was stopped. But in Punjab we are going to implement this scheme and we will run it successfully".
"Ex-MLAs in Punjab, even if they have won twice, five times or ten times, they will now get a pension for one term only," said Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in a video message, adding that several MPs are also getting pension for remaining MLAs earlier.
Bhagwant Mann apprised the prime minister about the poor fiscal health of the state and said the previous governments have left a whopping burden of Rs 3 lakh crore.
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