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Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, 82, has been missing from the BJP’s campaign in the state during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Amarinder was not seen even at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally held on Thursday on his home turf Patiala, from where his wife Preneet Kaur is contesting on the BJP’s ticket. This was PM Modi’s first rally in Punjab in the current polls.
Addressing a rally in Khetla village in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency on May 18, the Congress’s candidate Sukhpal Singh Khaira had called for bringing a law in Punjab along the lines of neighbouring Himachal Pradesh, which would bar a migrant, he said, from buying land or becoming voters or getting government jobs if that person does not fulfil certain state-stipulated conditions.
One-and-a-half months ago, close on the heels of the Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar’s announcement that the party will go solo in the Lok Sabha elections in the state, three-time Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, 48, joined the BJP in Delhi in the presence of its national president J P Nadda.
As the BJP increasingly looks to expand in Punjab and grow out of its image of being an urban Hindu party, it is increasingly likely that it will come in conflict with its former ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Sikh religious establishment on which the Akalis have a hold.
ONCE among the country’s longest-lasting political allies, the BJP and Akali Dal’s efforts to re-unite ahead of the Lok Sabha polls did not bear fruit eventually. The announcement that the BJP would fight the elections alone was made by its state president Sunil Jakhar, who had been among the strongest votaries of tying up with the Akali Dal.
Between its show of solidarity with the family of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and statements by leaders of its Punjab unitwelcoming the arrest, the Congress is walking a tightrope in its relationship with INDIA bloc ally, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Between its show of solidarity with the family of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and statements by leaders of its Punjab unitwelcoming the arrest, the Congress is walking a tightrope in its relationship with INDIA bloc ally, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The top Congress leadership on Friday united in its condemnation of the arrest of AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, taking to the streets of the national capital in protest. But the party is not speaking in one voice and this is most visible in Punjab where the Congress is the principal Opposition to the AAP government led by Bhagwant Mann.