Punjab: State President sunil Jakhar's big statement…?
Amid speculation of a BJP-SAD reunification ahead of next year's lok sabha polls, Bharatiya Janata Party's punjab unit president sunil Jakhar on tuesday said his party has to move forward from the "small ally mindset". . “A lot has been said about the fact that we (BJP) won 23 (Assembly seats) during our alliance with the Akalis,” Jakhar said after officially taking over as the state bjp president at an event in Chandigarh. And used to contest elections on three (Lok Sabha seats). But it's been a long time. That agreement was done in 1996-97.
Along with this, he said that the bharatiya janata party (BJP) has to fight its own battle and move forward. Jakhar said, “We have to protect the interests of the people of Punjab…Let us drop the mindset that we are a ‘junior partner’.” He said, “I have a request. We have to leave this 'chhotabhaiwalisoch'. We have to end this 'younger brother mentality'.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Shiromani Akali Dal) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, a few days ago, when asked about joining hands with bjp before next year's lok sabha elections, said that this is just media speculation. The bjp appears to have dismissed speculations of a possible alliance with its former ally Shiromani Akali Dal.
BJP's punjab in-charge vijay rupani had recently said that the party would go it alone in all the 13 lok sabha seats in the state. In september 2020, the Shiromani Akali Dal walked out of the national democratic alliance (NDA) over three agricultural bills and bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the post of Union Minister. However, later the central government had withdrawn these bills.
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