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[00:00:00] with this promise
[00:01:32] sent the Legal Service Authority for inspection,
[00:01:53] Hello and welcome everyone, you are watching India's most trusted channel,
[00:01:56] but there is no money to give widow pension DD News. I am Mukul Sharma with you. In News Punch, we
[00:02:02] schools. will talk about all the news that is in the headlines to Punjabis, to give old-age pension, and in News Punch, we will not only tell you the news but also thoroughly
[00:02:06] of the cities. investigate that news with facts and figures. We will also know
[00:02:09] from our reporters what the latest updates are coming out regarding
[00:02:13] that news. Today, our focus will be on these news stories. Let's turn our attention
[00:02:16] to them.
[00:02:20] First, let's talk about the students' uproar. Yes,
[00:02:24] if we talk about Jharkhand, it is continuously the fifth day
[00:02:27] of the students'
[00:02:30] of that, the Soren government's
[00:02:33] troubles are increasing. Two rounds of talks
[00:02:37] are staging dharnas and meetings have certainly happened, but no solution
[00:02:40] पाया है, अभी भी बेनतीजा है, इसके
[00:02:44] are government employees
[00:02:48] हैं, पेंशनर्स हैं, वो सरकार के खिलाफ सड़क पर
[00:02:51] प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं, क्या कुछ हुआ है, लेकिन आइए, सबसे पहले आइए
[00:02:55] directly to the BJP headquarters. A press conference is being held there.
[00:02:58] है, राष्ट्रीय महामंत्री हैं, राज्यसभा के
[00:03:02] of the Rajya Sabha,
[00:03:05] और पंजाब से आते
[00:03:07] that to get the outstanding DA
[00:03:09] It has been more than four and a half years since the government was formed in Punjab.
[00:03:12] हुए,
[00:03:16] The promises made by them have not been fulfilled
[00:03:18] at all,
[00:03:21] but the situation in Punjab is getting worse day by day.
[00:03:24] है,
[00:03:27] The way there drugs are rampant.
[00:03:35] to get your picture printed in newspapers,
[00:04:03] Today
[00:04:03] Punjab
[00:04:09] of the Aam Aadmi Party's
[00:04:10] government
[00:04:14] has become the biggest example of misuse
[00:04:17] of the system.
[00:04:21] How protectors
[00:04:24] have become devourers
[00:04:28] of Punjab's economy, your
[00:04:30] peace,
[00:04:34] Punjab's assets
[00:04:36] are being eroded.
[00:04:40] हैं,
[00:04:42] Papers are being leaked, students are scared.
[00:04:44] Law and order is in disarray.
[00:04:48] Extortion,
[00:04:51] collection and torture
[00:04:55] centers,
[00:04:58] the whole of Punjab is in an atmosphere of fear.
[00:05:00] में
[00:05:05] If someone raises a voice
[00:05:08] then they are killed, beaten,
[00:05:11] and summarily
[00:05:15] casteist remarks are made.
[00:05:16] हैं,
[00:05:20] If sanitation workers protest peacefully
[00:05:23] on the streets,
[00:05:24] हैं
[00:05:28] they are treated badly. I am sharing
[00:05:31] some things with you,
[00:05:34] but whatever I am talking to you about,
[00:05:38] it
[00:05:41] includes the National Crime
[00:06:07] and Regional Scheduled Caste Commission's cognizance and the merit lists released by the Punjab government's board itself. I am presenting the record of that before you.
[00:06:09] And how
[00:06:13] the government formed to protect the people itself
[00:06:17] became a tool of the mafia, the protectors became
[00:06:20] predators, and the mafia is running the government
[00:06:24] in Punjab.
[00:06:30] Police protection is being used
[00:06:34] for the suppression of the public
[00:06:35] instead.
[00:06:40] In all the ongoing movements, whether it is the movement of sanitation
[00:06:43] workers,
[00:06:47] whether it is the recruitment scam movement, whether
[00:06:50] it is the farmers' movement, in every movement,
[00:06:53] the police,
[00:06:57] instead of listening to the protestors
[00:07:00] and understanding them,
[00:07:02] is trying to crush
[00:07:05] the movement and the protestors
[00:07:08] who are working peacefully.
[00:07:11] There is an undeclared censorship
[00:07:16] in Punjab.
[00:07:20] What a newspaper will write
[00:07:24] and what it will print,
[00:07:26] what a TV will show,
[00:07:29] and what it will not
[00:07:31] show,
[00:07:34] this is decided
[00:07:38] by Bhagwant Mann's office.
[00:07:40] Those who attacked
[00:07:43] their MP Swati
[00:07:46] Maliwal, sent from Delhi,
[00:07:49] and in such a situation when
[00:07:53] she was in the Chief Minister's residence,
[00:07:54] those who beat
[00:07:58] her, Vaibhav Kumar,
[00:08:02] are running a parallel censor board there.
[00:08:06] Such a censor board that stops
[00:08:09] newspapers and
[00:08:13] , under the pretext of checking, enforces conditions.
[00:08:16] है,
[00:08:18] In the newspaper, "Sheesh Mahal 2"
[00:08:21] should not be printed,
[00:08:23] for that, big newspapers,
[00:08:27] big news agencies are being intimidated.
[00:08:29] The situation is that inside cities,
[00:08:32] in villages, if a small
[00:08:36] YouTube channel is running, then the SHO of the area
[00:08:39] calls and issues instructions
[00:08:42] on what to run and what to show.
[00:08:46] And if
[00:08:48] newspapers do not
[00:08:51] listen to them, then bulldozers are run over them,
[00:08:54] GST raids are conducted, and
[00:08:58] many such cases of big newspapers
[00:09:02] are pending in courts
[00:09:04] today. I want to draw
[00:09:07] your attention
[00:09:10] to the fact that
[00:09:14] at this time, Punjab's resources are being looted.
[00:09:17] Punjab's assets are being looted.
[00:09:21] Be it the Ravi River or the Chak Dariya of Pathankot,
[00:09:24] be it the area of Anandpur Sahib and Hoshiarpur Ropar,
[00:09:28] open
[00:09:30] and clear, open
[00:09:32] and clear
[00:09:37] illegal mining is happening.
[00:09:38] है.
[00:09:43] Kejriwal Sahab went there,
[00:09:47] how will money come from mining
[00:09:49] to the state government? They brought a new mining policy.
[00:09:53] लेके आए,
[00:09:56] It was a promise-back policy that 20,000 crore rupees
[00:09:59] would come into Punjab's treasury every year, meaning 1 lakh crore would come in 5 years,
[00:10:03] and because of that, they would work
[00:10:07] for an education revolution and a health revolution in every part of Punjab.
[00:10:10] The situation
[00:10:13] is that forget 20,000 crore, not even 800
[00:10:16] to 900 crore rupees have reached Punjab's treasury.
[00:10:20] And this is the same Aam Aadmi Party that came
[00:10:25] before the elections that they would stop
[00:10:28] illegal mining
[00:10:29] in Punjab.
[00:10:33] And you must remember Bhagwant Mann's jokes before the elections
[00:10:36] that the money from illegal mining
[00:10:39] पैसा
[00:10:41] when Channi's government was in power in Punjab,
[00:10:45] the Congress government, Bhagwant Mann would give bungalow numbers
[00:10:48] where suitcases would arrive.
[00:10:51] Today, out of 20,000 crore rupees, 900 crore rupees have come into the treasury.
[00:10:55] Whose bungalow did the 19,200 crore rupees
[00:10:59] go to? This is what Punjab asks today,
[00:11:02] Bhagwant Mann Sahab.
[00:11:05] Today, every child in Punjab knows,
[00:11:09] the public of Punjab is discussing that on every truck
[00:11:12] involved in illegal mining,
[00:11:14] ₹3500
[00:11:17] Mann tax is being collected.
[00:11:21] This means that instead of tax money coming into Punjab's treasury,
[00:11:25] Bhagwant Mann ji, the mafia he is controlling,
[00:11:28] that mafia is being given ₹3500
[00:11:31] per truck, and the situation is such
[00:11:34] that big newspapers
[00:11:37] in the country have already raised this issue, but the local administration
[00:11:41] is not even twitching, because the mafia
[00:11:44] itself is being controlled from the Aam Aadmi Party's
[00:11:48] office. The Punjab and Haryana High Court itself intervened,
[00:11:51] asked the Deputy Commissioner for a status report,
[00:11:57] and it is clearly visible
[00:12:00] there how through mining
[00:12:04] theft in Punjab,
[00:12:07] Punjab's treasury is empty,
[00:12:10] but through Mann tax,
[00:12:13] the Aam Aadmi Party's treasury is being filled.
[00:12:17] है
[00:12:20] The National Green Tribunal, after such
[00:12:23] extensive exploitation,
[00:12:26] banned mining on 85 sites,
[00:12:29] stopped desilting of the Ravi River in Gurdaspur,
[00:12:33] but the situation is that today if you go
[00:12:36] to any bank of Gurdaspur,
[00:12:39] I would request
[00:12:43] the newspapers here to go there
[00:12:47] independently and see, in the darkness of the night
[00:12:50] and in the light of day,
[00:12:52] में
[00:13:14] And in that area, due to this, accidents are continuously happening.
[00:13:17] रही
[00:13:20] Recently, when those involved in mining were raided,
[00:13:23] on the spot,
[00:13:26] 1 crore 75 lakh rupees,
[00:13:30] a single day's mining collection, was found
[00:13:34] from one place. 91 lakh rupees
[00:13:37] was in the account of the same person, the mafia.
[00:13:41] Whose money is this?
[00:13:44] 85 sites were closed by the Green Tribunal.
[00:13:47] From one site, a single day's collection
[00:13:51] was 1 crore 75 lakh rupees in cash and 90 lakh
[00:13:55] rupees deposited in the bank. How much mining is happening, and that
[00:13:59] mining money, instead of going into the treasury,
[00:14:03] is reaching the Aam Aadmi Party through Mann tax.
[00:14:06] Day in and day out, JCB
[00:14:09] machines are running where mining is happening. On the other
[00:14:12] hand,
[00:14:15] in Punjab, there are continuous incidents of paper leaks,
[00:14:18] and Bhagwant Mann Sahab is saying that no paper has been leaked.
[00:14:22] The truth is that they
[00:14:26] and their police
[00:14:28] caught the paper leak mafia, arrested them.
[00:14:32] When they were arrested, it came to light
[00:14:34] how big this mafia
[00:14:38] is and how through this mafia,
[00:14:41] in Punjab,
[00:14:43] Bhagwant Mann's
[00:14:47] government is protecting big
[00:14:51] criminals. How the pen drive, how
[00:14:55] the camera, how the paper was leaked,
[00:14:58] the complete record of that was noted
[00:15:02] in the First Information Report, but
[00:15:05] efforts are being made to suppress the entire scandal.
[00:15:08] The people who were demanding the resignation
[00:15:11] of the Education Minister
[00:15:13] here in Delhi, here for a CBI
[00:15:16] inquiry,
[00:15:19] here criminals were caught,
[00:15:23] there...
[00:15:25] criminals are roaming, dons protecting the mafia
[00:15:28] are roaming, but the government is doing
[00:15:32] only one thing: how to hide this news. I want to draw
[00:15:36] your attention
[00:15:39] to the fact that what are the names of the students in the merit list that has come out?
[00:15:42] State Bank of India, the student's name is
[00:15:46] Smile, the student's name is Photo, the student's
[00:15:50] name is GIF.
[00:15:53] I am telling a roll number, 12
[00:15:55] 51
[00:15:57] 125154,
[00:16:00] the student's name is State Bank of India.
[00:16:04] This exam was also taken
[00:16:07] by them, and they also got 21.25 marks.
[00:16:11] State Bank of India ji gave the exam
[00:16:14] there, and they also got 40 marks
[00:16:18] in another exam. This is not a mistake.
[00:16:21] This is not a bona fide error, it is mala fide
[00:16:25] that this is happening, and in October 2025
[00:16:29] in Punjab,
[00:16:32] I will continuously tell its series,
[00:16:35] continuously there,
[00:16:38] when students from
[00:16:41] whom you might remember that in Punjab,
[00:16:45] there has been a scam of 800 crore rupees
[00:16:48] for post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students.
[00:16:51] The court is continuously putting pressure
[00:16:55] on it, but the entire government is working
[00:16:59] to protect those who ate the money of SC children.
[00:17:01] लगी
[00:17:03] The entire government is trying in one way
[00:17:08] or another to stop justice. On the other
[00:17:11] hand, Punjab's employees are on the streets.
[00:17:15] Sanitation workers are being beaten.
[00:17:18] The incident
[00:17:19] in Barnala
[00:17:23] is exactly like General Dyer firing in Jallianwala Bagh.
[00:17:27] Similarly, in Barnala, Bhagwant Mann's
[00:17:30] police in Punjab
[00:17:33] are dragging women by their hair, by their clothes,
[00:17:37] and if you go on social media, I cannot use those words
[00:17:40] that those who were beaten said what words
[00:17:44] were used against them. Today, Punjab's
[00:17:48] employees are on the streets. Punjab
[00:17:51] Roadways, Punjab Bus, PRTC
[00:17:55] are staging dharnas. PSPCL,
[00:17:58] PSTCL, outsourced employees
[00:18:01] are on dharnas. Asha workers are on the streets.
[00:18:05] Anganwadi workers are on the streets. Mid
[00:18:09] day meal workers are on the streets. MNREGA employees
[00:18:14] for payment of their old dues. Employees of the water supply department
[00:18:18] and sewerage of the municipal corporation are staging dharnas.
[00:18:21] Sanitation workers are staging dharnas, and the situation
[00:18:25] is such that the entire administration, the entire
[00:18:29] administration is in agitation today,
[00:18:32] and the biggest thing is that crores
[00:18:36] of rupees of employees' DA
[00:18:39] are outstanding, and the situation is such
[00:18:44] and to get pension money,
[00:18:48] employees have been forced to visit court after court,
[00:18:51] and now the High Court and then the Supreme
[00:18:55] Court have clearly said that their money
[00:18:58] should be given to them.
[00:19:02] Clear directions have been given that the court is saying
[00:19:06] you have money for poster campaigns,
[00:19:09] you have money
[00:19:13] to paste on posters,
[00:19:16] but there is no money to give pension
[00:19:20] to a pensioner. Such a strict order indicates
[00:19:24] how anti-people the government's
[00:19:26] thinking is, and in Punjab,
[00:19:29] continuously atrocities on Dalits,
[00:19:33] Punjab is the region with the highest Dalit population in India.
[00:19:40] When the Gurus there, when throughout the world,
[00:19:43] there was discrimination based on black and white, caste,
[00:19:47] at such a time, our Gurus
[00:19:50] in Punjab talked about recognizing the human race as one.
[00:19:54] They talked about Sangat and Pangat against
[00:19:57] the caste system, that is why today in Punjab,
[00:20:01] the SC population is the highest, but the most atrocities
[00:20:04] are being committed against that SC population.
[00:20:07] On Republic Day, in Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and
[00:20:11] Patiala, at three places, hammers
[00:20:14] are used to strike the statues of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar ji.
[00:20:18] Near Phillaur, in Nangal village, the Ambedkar statue
[00:20:21] is broken. In September 2023,
[00:20:25] in Jalandhar, an FIR is registered
[00:20:29] against the son of the Aam Aadmi Party's local in-charge for kidnapping and brutally beating a Dalit youth.
[00:20:32] In February 2025,
[00:20:36] members of the Valmiki community and Dalit Panchayat are beaten on the streets
[00:20:40] by the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party.
[00:20:43] The situations have become so dire
[00:20:46] that where the Constitution's portrait is made
[00:20:50] in Sri Amritsar, where the statue
[00:20:54] of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar ji is installed, it is being beaten
[00:20:58] with hammers in broad daylight.
[00:21:01] In Punjab,
[00:21:05] the law paper leak is not the first incident,
[00:21:08] this is the sixth incident in four years. In 2023,
[00:21:12] the English board exam paper of PSEB 12th
[00:21:15] was leaked, the exam had to be cancelled.
[00:21:18] In 2000 23,
[00:21:21] PSTET Paper Second had to be cancelled
[00:21:24] due to serious errors. Paper was leaked.
[00:21:28] In 2024, the Agriculture
[00:21:31] Development Officer (ADO) recruitment exam paper was leaked, allegations of malpractice were made,
[00:21:35] but the Aam Aadmi Party tried to suppress it.
[00:21:38] In 2025, PSSSB Group
[00:21:42] B recruitment papers were leaked, allegations of irregularities were made,
[00:21:45] the Vigilance Bureau is investigating
[00:21:48] it. 2026 is before all of you.
[00:21:52] I would like to talk to you about law and order.
[00:21:54] Today, the situation of law and order is such
[00:21:57] that as I said
[00:22:01] before, I will not say anything without facts. If
[00:22:05] I discuss the record of the National Crime Records Bureau's Crime in India
[00:22:09] 2024, though the situation in 24 to
[00:22:12] 26 is even worse today, but the record
[00:22:16] of 24 says, which was released in the last four
[00:22:20] days, that 6060 cases
[00:22:23] for drug trafficking and possession of narcotics have been registered
[00:22:27] in Punjab, which is the highest
[00:22:31] registered in any one state of India.
[00:22:33] The situation is that
[00:22:37] 89 young people died in 2023
[00:22:40] due to overdose of drugs, and in 2024,
[00:22:44] 1061 1000
[00:22:48] children and if we count for 25 and 26,
[00:22:52] this number has multiplied many times. Today, if you go
[00:22:55] to any village in Punjab, any street,
[00:22:59] the number of people dying from drug overdose,
[00:23:03] every fourth or sixth house will be like this,
[00:23:06] where young people have died from drug overdose while injecting themselves.
[00:23:10] Snatching incidents are the highest
[00:23:13] in all of India. This is what
[00:23:16] was noted in the police stations. 1356 incidents.
[00:23:21] In a single year, 1079 murders have occurred
[00:23:24] in 24, in 2024,
[00:23:27] and this figure will be higher in 25, higher in 26,
[00:23:31] and criminals are escaping from jail.
[00:23:34] 48 criminals escaped in a single year,
[00:23:38] and if you analyze the law and order situation
[00:23:42] in Punjab, since the government was formed,
[00:23:46] every month, every other day, there is an incident.
[00:23:50] As soon as the government was formed, in May
[00:23:54] 2022, the Punjab Police Headquarters was attacked
[00:23:58] with a rocket launcher. In May 2023, three consecutive
[00:24:01] explosions occurred near Sri Harimandar Sahib. In July
[00:24:05] 2024, a mob of about 100 people attacked
[00:24:09] the Shringar Shringar police station in Ludhiana, vandalizing it.
[00:24:12] On December 2024,
[00:24:15] police stations are continuously being attacked, and there are 22
[00:24:19] police stations in Punjab
[00:24:22] where grenades have been thrown, grenades have been thrown at temples,
[00:24:26] grenades have been thrown at BJP Headquarters, and firing has taken place in Gurdwaras.
[00:24:29] And I will share the complete list with you,
[00:24:33] because in the press conference, day-wise, where
[00:24:36] crime is happening, how grenade attacks are happening,
[00:24:40] every day, a sarpanch
[00:24:43] is murdered, a nambardar is murdered.
[00:24:47] It seems that every day
[00:24:50] you will pick up a newspaper, and that
[00:24:53] newspaper is stained with the blood of Punjabis,
[00:24:56] and the government of Punjab
[00:25:00] is completely ineffective. The law and order
[00:25:03] situation in Punjab is such that Punjab's law and
[00:25:07] order is on a ventilator.
[00:25:10] है
[00:25:12] Punjab is in a terrible situation where
[00:25:16] grenade firing incidents,
[00:25:20] fear of extortion
[00:25:22] among people. Today, every city
[00:25:25] in Punjab is gripped by the fear
[00:25:28] of extortion and recovery. People receive calls
[00:25:32] from dons. In every small city,
[00:25:35] you will find a hundred or two traders, industrialists,
[00:25:38] doctors, lawyers, big farmers
[00:25:42] who are paying protection money.
[00:25:45] A parallel mafia is running the government.
[00:25:48] The mafia is collecting taxes. On one hand,
[00:25:52] there is Mann tax on mining, on the other hand, people
[00:25:55] are forced to pay life tax (extortion) to live.
[00:25:59] Punjab has reached such a situation. Murder of a chemist
[00:26:03] in Gurdaspur, murder of a Sangh official, murder of a Congress
[00:26:06] worker in Moga, continuously
[00:26:09] in weddings, in public
[00:26:13] events, and even while sitting in a police station
[00:26:17] outpost, police officers are also murdered,
[00:26:21] and every murder, every grenade attack, its video is also
[00:26:24] publicly released, and criminals are thumbing their noses at law
[00:26:28] and order. Punjab is going through such a situation,
[00:26:31] and the situation
[00:26:34] in Punjab is such that the Punjab
[00:26:37] Haryana High Court in July 2026
[00:26:40] has given the crisis
[00:26:43] in Punjab the status of the highest crisis,
[00:26:47] and the Home Ministry has also reviewed
[00:26:50] that currently in Punjab, 60
[00:26:53] thousand listen carefully,
[00:26:57] 60,000 NDPS
[00:27:00] cases, meaning cases of selling drugs,
[00:27:04] buying drugs,
[00:27:07] running drug mafia are pending.
[00:27:10] And look at the indifference of the Punjab
[00:27:13] government. On one hand, a war against drugs is being waged,
[00:27:17] on the other hand, in Punjab, there is no
[00:27:21] special court to hear such cases.
[00:27:24] There is no provision to open any special
[00:27:27] court. There is no recommendation.
[00:27:30] नहीं है.
[00:27:32] Punjab is running by God's grace.
[00:27:36] Here, Punjab is running at Kejriwal's convenience.
[00:27:40] Today, in Punjab,
[00:27:43] for Kejriwal and Sisodia, Punjab's resources,
[00:27:47] the government will be seen standing on one leg to welcome
[00:27:51] them. Punjab government's plane and helicopter
[00:27:54] are flying around to take Kejriwal around,
[00:28:01] to repair Punjab's
[00:28:04] There is no money to fix the roads
[00:28:09] There is no money,
[00:28:12] but there is money for Kejriwal Sahab's arrival.
[00:28:15] I request all of you
[00:28:19] that there are many incidents,
[00:28:23] where bomb blasts happen
[00:28:25] in broad daylight, a sarpanch
[00:28:29] is murdered in broad daylight, at a wedding.
[00:29:02] This is news from January 14, this is from January 18.
[00:29:06] Every day, every day
[00:29:10] these news stories tell that in Punjab, these
[00:29:13] murders are happening in broad daylight.
[00:29:17] The newspaper that prints this, after that, that newspaper
[00:29:21] is stopped. Chemist
[00:29:24] short date
[00:29:26] in broad daylight.
[00:29:30] For a small matter, if you demand extortion,
[00:29:33] he is killed. The murder
[00:29:36] of a 26-year-old youth. These are those pictures,
[00:29:39] women shot dead.
[00:29:42] हत्या,
[00:29:45] Continuously these news stories tell that murders are happening
[00:29:48] in broad daylight at weddings, and
[00:29:52] the entire government, I have shown you
[00:29:55] how protectors have become
[00:29:58] predators and are looting Punjab's
[00:30:01] resources. I discussed the directions
[00:30:05] of the Green Tribunal and the High Court on this. I
[00:30:08] discussed drugs, how drugs are coming, how they are being sold, how
[00:30:12] young people are dying from drugs, but
[00:30:15] the Punjab government is putting on a false show
[00:30:19] in the name of war against drugs, only hogging headlines. As I said
[00:30:22] before, today also on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party, I will ask the Chief Minister
[00:30:26] to come, let us first
[00:30:30] get the leaders tested.
[00:30:32] If leaders themselves are involved
[00:30:34] in drugs,
[00:30:36] then the dope test should be done on the leaders,
[00:30:40] only then can they tell the world to quit drugs, so Chief Minister ji
[00:30:43] should start the doctor's test.