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Punjab BJP moving president Ashwani Sharma connected Thursday (April 2, 2026) visited the tract of the blast extracurricular the party's office successful Chandigarh, a time aft the incidental triggered panic successful the area.
The detonation occurred astir 5 p.m. connected Wednesday (April 1) erstwhile a suspected crude explosive instrumentality was hurled adjacent the office, officials said. No casualties were reported.
Police cordoned disconnected the country and deployed unit successful the area, portion a squad of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspected the tract to analyse the explosion.
Mr. Sharma, an MLA from Pathankot, reached the Punjab BJP bureau successful the greeting and reviewed the situation.
An unverified video that surfaced connected societal media connected Wednesday (April 1) evening shows a antheral pulling the pin from a blue-coloured grenade and throwing it, portion different idiosyncratic records the act. The duo is past seen fleeing moments earlier the blast.
Their faces were not disposable successful the 10-second video, the veracity of which is yet to beryllium ascertained. CCTV camera footage besides showed the suspects moving crossed the roadworthy aft the explosion.
In a abstracted unverified societal media post, a idiosyncratic identified arsenic Sukhjinder Singh Babbar claimed work for the alleged grenade attack.
BJP nationalist spokesperson R.P. Singh termed the incidental "shocking" and said the information that the Punjab BJP moving president had conscionable near the bureau for Delhi earlier that greeting indicates that helium could person been the target.
"What makes this adjacent much superior is that @AshwaniSBJP (Ashwani Sharma), the authorities BJP Working President, had been contiguous astatine the aforesaid bureau for the past 2 days and had conscionable near for Delhi for a governmental programme.
"Just 15 days ago, helium was cautioned by the SSP of Pathankot to suspend his greeting walks owed to a circumstantial menace perception. Whether determination is immoderate nexus betwixt that informing and today's blast is simply a substance for investigation, but the coincidence cannot beryllium ignored," the BJP person said connected X connected Wednesday (April 1).
Mr. Singh said the incidental raises superior questions astir security, quality coordination, and the instrumentality and bid concern successful Punjab, calling for swift enactment against those responsible.
"Those liable indispensable beryllium identified and brought to justness astatine the earliest. There tin beryllium zero tolerance for specified acts of terror," helium said.
Mr. Sharma had departed for Delhi astatine 6 a.m. connected Wednesday (April 1) to be a enactment lawsuit successful the nationalist capital, wherever elder advocator and erstwhile AAP MLA H.S. Phoolka joined the BJP.
Punjab BJP main Sunil Jakhar described the incidental arsenic an "attack" connected the enactment bureau and linked it to a bid of caller disturbances successful the state.
"First, determination were continuous grenade attacks connected constabulary stations successful Punjab; past recently, a statue of Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar was vandalised successful Hoshiarpur; and today, the BJP state-level bureau successful Chandigarh was attacked," Mr. Jakhar had said connected Wednesday (April 1).
These incidents bespeak that attempts are being made to disrupt the state's communal harmony, helium had said.
Several governmental leaders, including Punjab Congress main Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, person of absorption Partap Singh Bajwa and Akali person Bikram Singh Majithia, condemned the blast.
