My Priority Is To Establish BJP As Only Alternative In Punjab: Sunil Jakhar

Restoring people's faith in democracy and establishing the BJP as the only alternative in Punjab will be his prime focus, Sunil Jakhar, the newly appointed chief of the party's state unit, said today. 

Speaking to reporters after meeting party national president J P Nadda at the BJP headquarters here, Mr Jakhar claimed, "Punjab is in a very miserable shape today with growing burden of loans and dwindling law-and-order situation." There is an atmosphere of fear across Punjab, he alleged, claiming that nobody feels safe in the state.

"People, who gave their mandate to the Aam Aadmi Party, are today feeling cheated," Mr Jakhar, who quit the Congress last year to join the BJP, said.

In such a situation, the BJP is the only "credible alternative" in Punjab as all other opposition parties including the Congress neither have the "capacity" nor the "confidence" to raise people's voice, he said. 

"The so-called recognised opposition party, Congress, has bowed down before the AAP government," Jakhar alleged. 

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has dared them to look into his eyes and talk but they can't because he says he has kept everybody's account and would put them behind bars, the BJP leader added.

Mr Jakhar met Nadda for the first time after being appointed as the BJP's Punjab unit president.

'My first priority is to restore people's faith in democracy and politics in Punjab, where there is an atmosphere of anarchy, and to convey to the people that the BJP is there to stand by their side and work in their interest," Mr Jakhar said. 

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