Chandigarh, February 26 – Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to launch election campaigns ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls, which are slated for early 2027. He will address a “Badlav Rally” in Moga town, Punjab, on March 14.
State BJP working President Ashwani Sharma stated on Thursday that "every section of Punjab, which is facing difficulties on all fronts, has decided to remove the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from power, and they now see the BJP as a reliable and credible alternative for change."
On March 16, the AAP government, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, will be completing four years in office.
The BJP stated that in these four years, the government has failed to fulfill its electoral promises and has not ensured the rule of law in the state.
Sharma alleged that the government has backtracked on every promise it made before coming to power.
He told the media that the law and order situation in Punjab is in a state of chaos, while corruption linked to the drug and mining mafia is rampant.
"The health and education systems are deteriorating, and employees are not receiving their salaries and pensions on time. Due to pending reimbursements under free schemes, the Power Board and Punjab Roadways are facing heavy losses and have been unable to pay salaries for months."
"The culprits in the sacrilege cases have not been punished, while AAP leaders, including MPs and MLAs, are accusing their party colleagues of colluding with the mafia."
He stated that CM Mann not only failed to fulfill the promise of providing Minimum Support Price (MSP) on every crop, but in the past four years, farmers allegedly faced reductions even in the MSP for wheat and paddy sent by the Centre.
Traders are distressed by what Sharma described as "tax recovery terror" by the state government.
In four years, the AAP government has neither built new roads in cities, towns, and villages nor even repaired potholes.
Sharma said that incidents of chain snatching are occurring daily across villages, towns, and cities in Punjab.
"Extortion calls are now being made not only to big businessmen but even to small grocery shopkeepers selling flour and pulses."
"Kabaddi players are being killed in broad daylight. Gangsters are openly firing shots and killing at will, and now even incidents are taking place fearlessly outside police stations and SSP offices," he said.
Sharma alleged that the Punjab Police, which once eradicated terrorism from the state, has been kept so busy by Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann in settling political scores with opponents that it has failed to prevent grenade attacks on its own police stations.
Sharma said that in the 2027 Assembly elections, the people of Punjab will get rid of the AAP government and form a BJP "double-engine" government, putting the state back on the path of development.
