BJP stands for unity: Chugh

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, December 16

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal’s statment on the BJP, calling it the real ‘tukde tukde gang’ has sparked a war of words between the former allies.

Reacting to Sukhbir’s statement that the BJP had become a ‘tukde tukde’ gang, BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today said the way Sukhbir, after parting ways with the BJP, was trying to create a divisive and disruptive narrative was strongly reprehensible.

“All Punjabis should wake up to the nefarious designs of Sukhbir and his party,” he said.

Chugh said the BJP had always stood for Hindu-Sikh unity in Punjab and tried to foster the brotherhood whenever there were strains of stress. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken special care to address the Sikh issues, be it providing succour to the 1984 riot victims, or opening of the Kartarpur corridor, or lifting a ban on foreign donations made to the Golden Temple.

Even during the times of militancy in Punjab, the BJP made sure that the Hindu-Sikh relations did not suffer and the spirit of Punjabiat was kept alive. Even at a time when silver spades were distributed for digging the SYL and the copies of the Constitution were burnt, the BJP made sure that bad blood did not spread in society.

The BJP has always kept the Punjabi spirit of Hindu-Sikh unity alive even during the times when massacre of Hindus was taking place in a planned manner, he said.