Security grids across the joint capital went into high alert on Friday after an anonymous bomb threat forced the emergency evacuation of the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat, just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled arrival in the city. The panic-inducing call, made directly to the police control room, triggered immediate safety protocols, forcing security forces to clear the multi-storey administrative building to conduct extensive sanitization operations.
The security scare emerged on a day when the Prime Minister is slated to land in Chandigarh to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for 10 major public welfare initiatives valued at Rs 4,700 crore. Following his official engagements in the capital, Modi is scheduled to travel to Jalandhar to inaugurate 75 railway stations upgraded under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, address a massive public rally, and hold high-level interactions with prominent spiritual leaders and saints from major regional deras.
Before crossing into Punjab, the Prime Minister commenced his regional tour in Jind, Haryana, where he flagged off India’s inaugural hydrogen-powered passenger train service to Sonipat, marking the country’s entry as the fifth nation globally to operationalize green hydrogen rail infrastructure.
Senior police officials confirmed that the restrictions and search protocols were mandatory security precautions executed to ensure the absolute safety of the VVIP transit corridor and the civil secretariat complex.