Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday slammed the Election Commission and Delhi Police raid at his official residence in Delhi- Kapurthala House. On Thursday, a team of the Election Commission allegedly raided after receiving complaints on the cVIGIL app in a cash distribution case amid the ongoing Delhi Elections 2025 campaigns. While the EC denied that it was allowed to enter the Kapurthala House, Chief Minister Mann took to his X handle and claimed that the EC team even checked boxes of clothes that belonged to women.
CM Bhagwant Singh Mann on his X handle wrote, "(Translated version) Today, Delhi Police raided my Chief Minister's residence Kapurthala House in Delhi. They searched the entire house. They even checked the clothes boxes of the women of my family. Will they tell me what they found? BJP people's houses are just 500 meters away from the Delhi Police office. Will they dare to raid their houses? Or are they allowed to do this only with Aam Aadmi Party and Punjabis? All this is BJP's frustration over its defeat. Raiding a Chief Minister's residence like this is highly condemnable."
In another tweet, CM Mann wrote, "(Translated version) Today, the Election Commission team along with Delhi Police has come to raid my house Kapurthala House in Delhi. BJP people are openly distributing money in Delhi but Delhi Police and Election Commission are not seeing anything. No action is being taken on all this. In a way, Delhi Police and Election Commission are defaming Punjabis at the behest of BJP, which is very condemnable."
Notably, the raid at Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann's Kapurthala residence comes a day after Delhi Police seized a suspicious vehicle outside Punjab Bhavan. A suspicious car with the text 'Punjab Sarkar' was seized by Delhi Police on Wednesday. Cash, liquor, and AAP brochures and stickers were recovered from the car.
In response, Punjab's Department of Transport issued a statement and outlined that the number plate of the seized car by the Police was forged and fake.