A routine visit by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to Sri Muktsar Sahib Gurdwara has snowballed into a political controversy after an official order surfaced assigning two policemen to guard the chief minister’s shoes during his gurdwara visit.

The directive, issued by the Muktsar police, named Head Constable Roop Singh and Constable Sarbat Singh as being deputed “on duty on the shoes of CM of Punjab at Gate No 7 in plain clothes.”

Within hours, the order spread across social media, drawing ridicule and anger from Opposition leaders, who accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of reducing the police force to personal attendants.

During his public address at Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, where he laid the foundation stone for development projects worth Rs 138.83 crore under the AMR

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