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Only five months are left before Punjab goes to the polls, he said, calling upon party workers to build a strong team and ensure that the BJP’s message, ideology and achievements reach every household.
The BJP has since sought to make drugs, law and order and governance key issues in its preparations for the assembly elections. At the Ludhiana meeting, Santosh accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of failing on drugs, law and order and development. He alleged that the AAP government had worsened the situation in Punjab and claimed that its policies had also contributed to the migration of industries from the state. At the Jalandhar meeting, Santosh emphasised the need to strengthen the party organisation from the grassroots level. Santosh also took a swipe at the AAP, saying the state government had failed on every front and suggesting that an internal crisis could emerge within the ruling party. Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon also attacked the AAP government over the drug menace, law and order and the state’s debt burden.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch a statewide anti-drug yatras from next month across all 117 assembly constituencies of Punjab, party’s national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh said on Tuesday. In Amritsar, Santosh told party workers that the BJP was fully prepared to contest all 117 assembly seats and expressed confidence that the party would form the government in Punjab. He reviewed organisational reports from Amritsar Urban, Amritsar Rural-1, Amritsar Rural-2, Batala, Ferozepur, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot.
Because of gangster networks and accused the government of worsening Punjab’s economic situation, he alleged that people were living under fear.
The campaign comes months after Union home minister Amit Shah, while addressing the BJP’s “Badlav Rally” in Moga on March 14, said that only a BJP government could completely rid Punjab of the drug menace. He said the BJP must take along senior and long-serving leaders and workers as well as those who had recently joined the party. He said the BJP was being widely discussed across the state and asserted that political change would come to Punjab.
