India, Aug. 21 -- A delegation of the Punjab BJP met governor Gulab Chand Kataria in Chandigarh on Thursday, seeking his urgent intervention against what it termed as the "continuous harassment" of its workers and volunteers during awareness camps on the central government's welfare schemes.

In a memorandum submitted by state unit working president Ashwani Sharma, the BJP alleged that Punjab Police and the local administration have been disrupting awareness camps organised in villages to inform people about central schemes such as Ayushman Bharat health cards, old-age pension, farmers' welfare programmes, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, and other Union government initiatives aimed at the poor, farmers, and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe com...