What was the immediate reason for Ahmad Shah Abdali to invad

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What was the immediate reason for Ahmad Shah Abdali to invade India and fight the Third Battle of Panipat?

[IAS (Pre) 2010]

[Maratha State and Confederacy]

He wanted to avenge the expulsion of his Viceroy Timur Shah from Lahore by Marathas

The frustrated Governor of Jullundhar Adina Beg Khan invited him to invade Punjab

He wanted to punish Mughal administration for non-payment of the revenues of the Chahar Mahal (Gujarat, Aurangabad, Sialkot and Pasrur)

He wanted to annex all the fertile plains of Punjab up to the borders of Delhi to his kingdom

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