India, Feb. 16 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Friday organised protests across the state against Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, alleging that remarks made by him about Punjab cabinet minister Harbhajan Singh ETO were derogatory and targeted at the Dalit community and working-class groups.

AAP said its leaders, ministers, MLAs, party workers, and local residents participated in demonstrations at several locations, raising slogans and demanding a public apology from Bajwa as well as the Congress leadership.

Baltej Pannu, Punjab unit general secretary of AAP, said the party viewed Bajwa's comments as going beyond an individual political attack. "Partap Singh Bajwa's shameful and casteist remarks aga...