For BJP, Punjab next stop: Ravneet Bittu tells Bhagwant Mann 'start packing your bags'

As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is storming back to power in Delhi with a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party, BJP leader and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu took a potshot at Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, claiming that “it’s now his turn to pack the bags”.

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Speaking to media, Bittu said Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Atishi's Chief Minister house 'Sheesh Mahal' has now been vacated by the people.

“Bhagwant Mann should now start packing his bags... Today the whole country is celebrating the victory of Delhi's BJP workers... When the BJP comes to power in Punjab, no one will have to sell their house, property, or land to go abroad. Everyone will get work here. This is Narendra Modi's vision,” he said.

#WATCH | Chandigarh | On #DelhiElections2025 results, Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu says, "... Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Atishi's Chief Minister House 'Sheesh Mahal' has now been vacated by the people... Bhagwant Mann should now start packing his bags... Today the… pic.twitter.com/N3YWh5jiu0

— ANI (@ANI) February 8, 2025

Meanwhile, Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar too targeted the Kejriwal-led party, stating “PM Modi now have to make Punjab AAP-free”.

“Congratulations to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, National President JP Nadda and all BJP workers for making Delhi AAP-free under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Due to their hard work, lotus has bloomed in Delhi after 27 years. Now the Prime Minister will have to take up the task of making Punjab AAP-free.

"Punjabis are now looking at PM Modi, when the atmosphere of fear prevailing in Punjab end under his leadership and people will be able to live in peace,” Jakhar said in a post on X.

प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी जी के नेतृत्व में दिल्ली को आप-दा मुक्त करने के लिए केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री अमित शाह जी,राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष जेपी नड्डा जी समेत भाजपा के सभी कार्यकर्ता को बधाई। जिनकी मेहनत से दिल्ली में 27 साल बाद कमल खिला है। अब पंजाब को आप-दा मुक्त करने का बीड़ा भी प्रधान…

— Sunil Jakhar (@sunilkjakhar) February 8, 2025

Reacting to the latest counting trends, Punjab BJP general secretary Subhash Sharma said, “It is a defeat of Arvind Kejriwal's lies and dishonesty. Today, people of Delhi showed that you cannot rule the state for long by making false promises.”

“It is the result of the AAP and Kejriwal putting Delhi into a miserable condition,” Sharma said, adding that it is a “lesson” for all AAP leaders in Punjab that “what they have done to Punjab in the past three years, their condition will be worse than what happened in Delhi today.

“The downfall of the AAP government in Punjab starts from today,” the BJP leader said while speaking to reporters.

Preneet Kaur, a BJP leader and former MP, said, “We are happy that BJP is winning.”

“This will have an impact in Punjab... as they kept speaking about their 'Delhi model',” Kaur said, adding that their 'Aam Aadmi clinics' did not work here and “what they had promised, they did not keep them”.

Meanwhile, BJP leaders and workers in parts of Haryana and Punjab erupted in celebrations with latest trends showing the saffron party winning the Delhi Assembly polls. — with PTI