Punjab: Out of BJP, Anil Joshi hints at SAD shift
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Punjab: Out of BJP, Anil Joshi hints at SAD shift
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AMRITSAR: Former BJP leader Anil Joshi, who was expelled from the party following differences with its leadership over the central farm laws, has indicated his proximity with SAD. Joshi said issues of Punjab should be resolved within Punjab and not from Delhi. “In BJP, all the significant decisions are taken in Delhi even the decision with regards to the farmer’s issues has to come from Delhi, and so is the case with Congress whose leaders make errands to Delhi if they have any issue. Everyone saw Captain Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu rushing to Delhi in the recent past since the decision is to be taken from there and so is the case of AAP. So, I “I observed that SAD is a regional party that takes decisions for Punjab from within Punjab,” he said. After being expelled from the party, Joshi was trying to find a political ground for himself especially at Amristar-North assembly constituency where he had won assembly elections on two occasions and lost once. Sources said with AAP fielding former IG Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh from Amritsar North assembly constituency, the road to victory wouldn’t be easy for Joshi, which might force him to change the constituency. Joshi had accused three prominent Akali leaders hailing from Amritsar and Tarn Taran in 2015 for allegedly orchestrating an attack on his brother Raja Joshi and had publicly announced that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal would be responsible if anything happened to his family.
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The Times of India
Date
2021-08-18
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Amritsar