Punjab CM alleges plot to defame state before second flight’s arrival with deported Indians from US

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday alleged a “conspiracy to defame Punjab and Punjabis” ahead of the scheduled arrival in Amritsar of the second flight carrying deported Indians from the United States.

“The Ministry of External Affairs should state the criteria based on which Amritsar was selected to land the aircraft,” Mann said. “You select Amritsar to defame Punjab…Amritsar is being chosen deliberately to portray that only Punjabis are illegal migrants.”

ਪੰਜਾਬ ਨੂੰ ਬਦਨਾਮ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਸਾਜ਼ਿਸ਼ ਤਹਿਤ ਅਮਰੀਕਾ ਤੋਂ ਡਿਪੋਰਟ ਕੀਤੇ ਭਾਰਤੀਆਂ ਦਾ ਜਹਾਜ਼ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ ਉਤਾਰਿਆ ਜਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ। ਕੇਂਦਰ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਤੇ ਪੰਜਾਬੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਬਦਨਾਮ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੀ ਹੈ।
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पंजाब को बदनाम करने की साजिश के तहत अमेरिका से डिपोर्ट किए गए भारतीयों का जहाज़ अमृतसर उतारा जा रहा है।… pic.twitter.com/mDizQF5hzG— Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) February 14, 2025

He demanded that the Union government should get the plane’s route changed so that it could land in Delhi, Ghaziabad’s Hindon airbase, or Ahmedabad.

On February 5, a US military flight with 104 Indian citizens arrived in Amritsar after being deported from the US. Of them, 33 each were from Gujarat and Haryana, 30 from Punjab, three from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.

A second aircraft with 119 deported Indian citizens from the US is due to land in Amritsar between 10 pm and 11 pm on...

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