Chandigarh, July 14 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Punjab working president Ashwani Sharma on Sunday hit back at chief minister Bhagwant Mann over his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, stating that the party would respond in the same language. After assuming charge of the office in the presence of state unit president Sunil Jakhar, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu and BJP national secretary Narinder Singh Raina among others, Sharma said, "Mann seems to have forgotten he is no longer a stage performer but holds the constitutional office of the chief minister of Punjab."

Mann had recently questioned the PM's foreign visits. "Mann has been running a circus instead of a government over the p...