From the Centre introducing and withdrawing a notification to restructure Panjab University’s administration to the scrapped Constitutional amendment Bill to bring the Union Territory of Chandigarh under Central control, Punjab has witnessed a series of political U-turns by the BJP in the face of backlash in the state.

Thursday marked the fourth such reversal over the past month for the BJP when Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal abruptly turned back from Amritsar without attending a scheduled Gang Canal centenary event at Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district, the canal’s point of origin.

Meghwal, who represents the Bikaner Lok Sabha seat, landed at the Amritsar airport Thursday evening but did not even step out of the terminal. Within two hours, he boarded a return flight,

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