Overview
- Congress leaders and workers attempted to push through barricades en route to the Vidhan Sabha after gathering outside the party office in Chandigarh.
- Chandigarh Police deployed water cannons to disperse the crowd when the march advanced, with reports of turbans being knocked off by the jets.
- State unit chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring led the protest, staged a sit-in after being stopped, and accused the Bhagwant Mann government of failing on multiple fronts.
- Police said roughly 200 protesters were taken into custody and later freed, asserting the water cannons were used solely for crowd control.
- From the stage, senior leaders including Partap Singh Bajwa and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa amplified attacks citing the unfulfilled ₹1,000 monthly aid for women, alleged debt above ₹4 lakh crore, weak law and order, and heavy ad spending.