Ludhiana, May 1 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday staged protests at constituency level across the district against prolonged power cuts, alleging failure of the state government to provide uninterrupted electricity.

In Ludhiana West constituency, party leaders and workers gathered in large numbers outside the Agar Nagar division on Ferozepur Road and raised slogans against the government.

The protest was led by constituency in-charge Advocate Parupkar Singh Ghuman, who accused successive governments after the SAD regime of weakening the state's power infrastructure. Addressing the gathering, he said that Punjab had become a power-surplus state during the Akali Dal government, but claimed that the Congress and the present Aam...