CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Wednesday said that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal was spreading poison and igniting communal passions in Punjab.
Reacting to Badal’s statement that the BJP had become a “tukde tukde” gang, Chugh said the way Sukhbir, after parting ways with the NDA, was trying to create a divisive and disruptive narrative was strongly reprehensible. “All Punjabis should wake up to the nefarious designs of Sukhbir Badal and his party,” he said. Chugh said the BJP had always stood for Hindu-Sikh unity in Punjab and had tried to foster the brotherhood whenever there were strains of stress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken special care to address the Sikh issues, be it providing succour to the 1984 riot victims, or opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, or lifting a ban on foreign donations made to the Golden Temple, and many more like that, Chugh added.
He said that even during the times of militancy in Punjab, the BJP made sure that the Hindu-Sikh relations did not suffer and the spirit of Punjabiyat was kept alive. On farmers’ front, he said the BJP was committed to doing everything for their welfare. The three farm laws are meant to double their income by 2022, he added.