Farmers’ agitation over, BJP ticket aspirants put up posters

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, December 19

As the farmers’ protest over the recently scrapped three farm laws has ended, the BJP leadership has become publicly active again. The party on Sunday held a meeting in Muktsar town, wherein its state general secretary Dayal Singh Sodhi appealed to people to bring the BJP to power so that maximum development works can be carried out with the help of the Centre.

Sodhi said Congress leaders were caught in infighting and unable to think of the welfare of the state. Meanwhile some local BJP leaders, in an attempt to stake claim to the party ticket, have even put up their posters and hoardings in the town.

In the past one year, the BJP leadership had hardly put up any posters. Especially, after the Malout incident on March 27 this year, in which MLA Abohar Arun Narang was allegedly thrashed, inked and stripped by some farmers, the BJP leadership had gone almost silent.

The party leadership has however claimed that it was publicly active and involved in some social activities as well. “We remained active during the protest period as well. We even celebrated some occasions in the past. The elections are due early next year and we have now increased the political activities as well. I have been working for the party for the past 35 years and have staked claim for the ticket from Muktsar constituency,” said Rajesh Pathela ‘Gora’, president, Muktsar BJP.

Some miscreants blackened Gora’s posters. On this, he said: “Narrow-minded people can only do such things. However, I have no problem with such people.”

Meanwhile, a former District Transport Officer, Gurcharan Singh Sandhu, has joined the BJP. He, too, has put up his posters in the constituency.