CHANDIGARH, May 9 -- Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Thursday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's "Shukrana Yatra", saying the ruling party should instead undertake a "paschatap yatra" to apologise to the people for "ruining Punjab and failing to curb the drug menace and gangster culture".

Reacting to chief minister Bhagwant Mann's thanksgiving outreach programme, Warring said the AAP government should be grateful to the people for giving it a decisive mandate in 2022, but added that it also owed Punjabis an explanation for what he described as "unfulfilled promises and failed governance".

Calling the "Shukrana Yatra" a "political exercise in self-praise", the Congress leader alleged that the AAP ...