Chandigarh, Oct. 27 -- Launching a scathing attack on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the opposition Congress, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravneet Singh Bittu accused Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of utter inaction over the past five years.

Addressing the media in Chandigarh, Bittu held up a symbolic liquor bottle, referring to it colloquially as a "talli", to characterise what he described as five years of administrative apathy, governance failure, and political hypocrisy in Punjab.

Targeting Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the BJP leader alleged that the state government spent its entire term indulging in political theatrics rather than tackling core governance challenges, drug issues, and infrastructure development....