Chandigarh, Feb. 4 -- A day after Radha Soami Satsang Beas head Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon termed the drug charges against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia "false", chief minister Bhagwant Mann's cryptic social media post, ostensibly aimed at the dera chief, on Tuesday triggered a political storm in Punjab.

Several Opposition leaders from the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal hit out at the chief minister, accusing him of being "discourteous" to the widely respected spiritual leader.

The reactions were sparked by Mann's post on X in which, without naming the dera head, he said that only God can save courts where visitors become judges. Mann's post in Punjabi alluded to Baba Dhillon r...