Punjab Congress leadership a slave of its haughtiness: Sunil Jakhar.
Chandigarh, May 1, 2024 State BJP President Sunil Jakhar today trained guns at the Punjab Congress saying that the state leadership of the party was arrogantly self-obsessed and reeling under falsely augmented ego that has cost the party dear.
He said the big blabbermouth state Cong leadership is a slave of its own haughtiness and has disseminated a culture of dissent within the party where leaders are treated dismally and given a raw deal. Addressing newspersons today, Sunil Jakhar said, it appears that the Congress leadership in the state was working towards an agenda of ‘Congress Mukt (free) Punjab’.
“Consider the case of former Cong MLA Dalvir Singh Goldy, who left the Congress to join the AAP today. He has the potential. Punjab needs such leaders, but the Congress state leadership couldn’t care less about all this,” Sunil Jakhar said. He added that Goldy had to face derogatory and un-parliamentary language from the state leadership at his exit. “In the loud-mouth culture of the Punjab Congress, Dalvir Goldy was an earnest, hardworking and soft spoken leader battling a self-obsessed egoistic state leadership. It’s a sad commentary on its own,” the BJP chief said.
Sunil Jakhar also cited the case of the wife of late former Congress MP Santok Singh Choudhary while underlining the culture of shabby treatment meted out to party leaders by the Congress. “Choudhary Santok Singh lost his life during the Congress Yatra. This family gave three generations and 18 wins to the Congress, but it is shameful the way the Punjab Congress treated the family. They were unceremoniously thrown out of the party,” Sunil Jakhar said.
Jakhar was flanked by Union Minister Gajender Singh Shekhawat, Narinder Singh Raina, national secretary of the BJP and Karamjit Kaur, wife of former MP Santok Singh Choudhary and Sheetal Angural, MLA from Jalandhar West.
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Union Minister Gajender Singh Shekhawat while addressing newspersons reiterated that the doors of the BJP have always been open for a dialogue with the farmers. Just that some elements are obstructing the process, perhaps as part of some script, he added while responding to a query on the ongoing farmer protests in Punjab. Shekhawat, who maintained that the BJP was flourishing in Punjab with border security and economic issues being addressed under the Modi regime towards attaining the final goal of a Viksit (developed) Bharat, Shekhawat said he was confident that the BJP in Punjab will win all the 13 Lok Sabha seats.
