Patiala, Feb. 12 -- Launching an attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government -- over the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab -- Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the state was returning to the "black days" of terrorism -- witnessed during the early 1980s.

Addressing the Jago Sarkar Jago rally, in Patiala on Wednesday, against the alleged collapse of law and order, Warring said the recovery of hand grenades and repeated bomb threats to government offices and courts were alarming and reminiscent of Punjab's darkest phase. He squarely blamed chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who also holds the home portfolio, for what he termed a complete failure to maintain public safety. ...