‘Farmers on railway track, Mann taking chopper rides to meet jailed Kejriwal’

Punjab BJP state president Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday prodded CM Bhagwant Mann for his amplified love for jailed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal asking Mann to now focus on the burgeoning farmer concerns and protests in Punjab instead of flying every time in a chopper to Tihar jail to meet beleaguered Kejriwal.

“At a time when distressed farmers are protesting and sitting on railway tracks, Bhagwant Mann’s sorties in choppers and ‘’milni’’ (ceremonial meeting) with Kejriwal continues. Previously, Mann tried to act as the advocate of farmers, now he’s left farmers in the lurch,” Sunil Jakhar said in Chandigarh today.

Maintaining clearly that a stronger Punjab will lead to a stronger nation, the state BJP President said it’s an avoidable confrontation with farmers and Mann should focus his energy on ensuring that the protest ends on railway tracks and elsewhere, which he added, was not only causing distress to farmers, it was also a cause of suffering for the common man in Punjab.

Reiterating that the Punjab excise policy was a ‘bigger scam’ than Delhi’s now defunct liquor excise policy that has CM Kejriwal and other senior AAP leaders in barracks of Tihar jail, Sunil Jakhar said those who needed to be in Tihar jail are already there and those who need to be in Burail jail in Chandigarh will be investigated in Punjab.

State BJP president Sunil Jakhar also accused the Congress and the AAP as two sides of the same coin, lamenting that the two parties have resorted to loot and plunder and were misleading the people of Punjab. “Elsewhere, they are contesting the Lok Sabha elections as coalition partners but in Punjab they are fighting separately to mislead the people of the state,” Jakhar said while welcoming scores of leaders from Congress, AAP and SAD into the party fold here on Tuesday.