A day after several contractual employees of state-owned bus services in Punjab were detained during protests against the opening of tenders related to the kilometre-based bus scheme, protestors in Ludhiana condemned the police action.

Senior Vice President of the PUNBUS Contract Workers Union in Hoshiarpur, Sandeep Singh, alleged that four of their leaders state committee member Kulwant Singh, district president Raminder Singh, secretary Narinder Singh and cashier Dharminder Singh were still detained.