CM Mann attacks PM Modi over deportation: "Is this the gift Trump has given?..."; Watch Video
Accuses PM Modi for defaming Punjab
Gurpreet Singh
Amritsar (Punjab), February 14, 2025: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the deporation of Indians from the United States.
"A second plane carrying (Indian citizens who allegedly illegally migrated to the US) will land in Amritsar tomorrow...Ministry of External Affairs should tell the criteria based on which Amritsar was selected to land the aircraft. You select Amritsar to defame Punjab...So, at the time when PM Modi and (US President) Trump were meeting, they (US authorities) must have been putting shackles on our people. Is this the gift Trump has given?..." said CM Mann while interacting with the media.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to receive 119 Indian deportees who likely to land in Amritsar on February 15.CM Mann will be accompanied by Minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal. A U.S. plane carrying 119 illegal immigrants is likely to land at Amritsar airport on February 15.
Among the 119 illegal Indian immigrants, 67 hail from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that Modi is not leaving any opportunity to defame Punjab. Mann said that the issue of farmers is pending, the government is not giving our RDF fund, if we raise our voice then a conspiracy is being hatched to defame us. He said that now Punjab is being defamed in a new way.
Bhagwant Mann said that the central government has always been discriminating and pushing Punjab. He said that landing the plane of deported Indians in Amritsar is a conspiracy to defame Punjabis and Punjab. He said that Modi is leaving no opportunity to defame Punjab. Mann said that the issue of farmers is pending, the government is not giving our RDF fund, if we raise our voice then a conspiracy is hatched to defame us. He said that now Punjab is being defamed in a new way.
Mann said that we oppose every time American planes land in Punjab and we will talk about this again with the central government and the Ministry of External Affairs. He said that Trump has started deporting illegal people, but the question is that this is a national problem for India, then why is the plane being landed in Punjab. These planes can also land in Delhi.
Mann said that we will receive all the deported Indians with respect tomorrow. He said that when Sheikh Hasina flees from Bangladesh, she is landed in Ghaziabad, then why is the plane of deported Indians not landed in Delhi, Haryana or Gujarat? He said that a conspiracy is being hatched to defame us deliberately. The Chief Minister said that when the Rafale consignment can land in Ambala, then why can't the deported Indians be landed there?
The Chief Minister revealed that when we approach the Ministry of External Affairs with a demand to start flights from Amritsar and Mohali airports to Canada, America, UK or other big countries, our demands are ignored, but now when deported Indians are returning to their homeland, why are they being landed only in Amritsar, Punjab, when this is a national problem and these deported Indians should be landed at Delhi airport, but this is not being done.
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#WATCH | Amritsar | Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann says, "A second plane carrying (Indian citizens who allegedly illegally migrated to the US) will land in Amritsar tomorrow...Ministry of External Affairs should tell the criteria based on which Amritsar was selected to land the… pic.twitter.com/TmPivL0xpn
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