India, March 21 -- Punjab transport and jails minister Laljit Singh Bhullar resigned from the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government on Saturday, a day after his name surfaced in the suicide of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the district manager (DM) of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation, in Amritsar.

Randhawa, who held additional charge of Patti, died after consuming a poisonous substance on Friday evening. A video surfaced shortly before his death in which he purportedly said, "Kha layi (poison) thuade yaar ne minister Laljit Bhullar de dar ton, hun ni bachda (Your friend has consumed poison due to fear of minister Laljit Bhullar; I won't survive now)."

The controversy centres on allegations that Bhullar pressured the DM to award a warehou...