Farmers Movement Archive

Punjab BJP to contest all assembly seats in 2022

AMRITSAR: With the SAD-BJP partnership coming to an end after Akali Dal pulled out of the NDA government over the contentious farm laws, the BJP in Punjab has decided to contest all the 117 assembly seats on its own and even started preparations for that. Talking to mediapersons on Monday, BJP secretary Tarun Chugh said the party had begun preparations on a war-footing to contest all the assembly seats on its own in the ensuing 2022 assembly elections in the state. When BJP was in alliance with SAD (B), the saffron party, as par agreement with the coalition partner, used to contest on 23 assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats in Punjab. A challenge for the party will be to find 117 winning faces when it is not in alliance with SAD and there appears to be no formation of a new partnership in the near future. Sharing party’s poll plans, Chugh said the state BJP unit was contemplating its strategy on strengthening itself in all the 23,000 booths spread in Majha, Malwa, Doaba and Kandi areas of Punjab. “Plans are being prepared to work on party’s poll formulas of appointing youth, pana parmukh, shakti kendra parmukh for direct contact with common people,” he said. He said BJP president J P Nadda would have a virtual meeting on November 19 to inaugurate party offices in 10 districts of Punjab through which they would inform as many as 160 welfare schemes launched by the Modi government to the people of Punjab. He also indicated a possible three-day stay by Nadda in Punjab.

The Times of India

2020-11-17

Amritsar