New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Days after a dagger attack on Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal at a Gurudwara in Maharashtra's Nanded, his wife and party MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking a National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the incident and into an earlier attack in December 2024 to examine any connection between both attack.

The MP alleged that the recent attack was part of a larger conspiracy, calling it a "dastardly and heinous assassination bid".

"I write with a mix of personal pain and profound concern for our society, our state of Punjab and our country, particularly over the manner in which violence is being normalised and even justified by persons h...