Amritsar, April 4
Punjab BJP leaders sharpened their attack on the AAP government on Saturday over the death of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, accusing it of indifference and of using state power to protect those linked to the case.
At a protest in Amritsar, the party said it would continue pressing for justice for Randhawa’s family, arguing that the state government had failed to inspire confidence in the investigation.
Randhawa, the district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar, allegedly died after consuming poison on 21 March. The case intensified after a video surfaced in which he reportedly accused then transport minister Laljit Singh Bhullar of harassment.
Bhullar later resigned from the Punjab cabinet on the direction of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and was arrested two days later. But BJP leaders said those steps came only after public anger had grown and were not enough to address wider questions around accountability.
The protest at Hall Gate drew the party’s top Punjab leadership, including state BJP chief Sunil Jakhar, national general secretary Tarun Chugh, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, and working president Ashwani Sharma.
Leaders and supporters raised slogans against the AAP government and demanded a CBI investigation, saying the family did not trust the state government or the Punjab Police probe.
The BJP insisted the issue was not about political advantage but about justice for Randhawa’s family. At the same time, the protest underscored that the opposition is seeking to turn a deeply sensitive death into a broader challenge to the Mann government’s credibility and its handling of power.
