Newspaper distribution across Punjab was disrupted on Sunday (November 2) morning after police conducted extensive checks on commercial vehicles during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

While the state police explained that the monitoring of vehicles carrying various items was undertaken following specific intelligence inputs, it was not late before the matter received political colours as the Opposition slammed Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, accusing it of targeting the freedom of the press.

Opposition parties slam AAP govt

Senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa claimed on X that the “raids on newspaper delivery vans across Punjab are a chilling attack on press freedom”.

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