More than 100 cops were on guard as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann spent a night at his Old Baradari residence in Jalandhar.The CM had arrived around 12 noon on Thursday, spending almost 24 hours in the city. He was accompanied by his adviser Bibhav Kumar and OSD Rajbir Singh. His wife Dr Gurpreet Kaur, who had joined him during his previous stay in the house last month, was not here this time. Barricades remained in place on all sides leading to his house and were finally lifted this afternoon.While the CM held a Lok Milni on Thursday (second in Jalandhar since this year), only some officers met him before he left on Friday. The CM’s visit to Jalandhar for the milni is being seen as a step of the party to improve its prospects, especially since the Congress has its MP and five of the nine MLAs. Various works as proposed by party leaders and workers were approved by the CM and the officers concerned during the meeting.Adampur halqa in-charge Pawan Tinu was much appreciative of the CM’s move to meet the public in the two back-to-back milnis. “All proposals that I had put forth before the CM in my January 12 meeting have been executed. There was staff shortage in the PSPCL in Adampur. After I put forth the issue before the CM last month, the department has deployed staff and also filled in the post of XEN. I have presented more demands of residents of Alawalpur and got a positive response. If the CM keeps on visiting and meeting public like this, most of our problems will get sorted out quickly”, he said.Councillor Harjinder Ladda too raised the problem of high tension wires in his ward. Residents of the Surya Enclave Welfare Society led by halqa in-charge Nitin Kohli, also met the CM. They demanded a waiver of enhancement charges and non-construction fee levied by the Jalandhar Improvement Trust from them.Rajiv Dhamija, president of the society, said the enhancement charges had been jacked up from Rs 5,424 per marla to Rs 1.1 lakh per marla, which was beyond the paying capacity of several families.