Congress jabs BJP chief on claims of recreating Ranjit Singh era in Punjab

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday jibed at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Nabin for selling the alleged bogus dreams of recreating the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era in Punjab. He said the proposition is impossible, both historically and geographically.

Punjab, Warring said, is faced with several issues like the farm crisis, unemployment, corruption, drug menace and the rising gangster culture. “We need solutions to those pressing problems, not a rewind of history, which in any case is not possible,” he remarked.

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He said Nabin is not the first to sell these bogus dreams, and the people of Punjab are not interested or impressed by such rhetoric as they face survival challenges. “Instead of selling the Ranjit Singh era dreams, let us talk about the present crisis Punjab is facing,” Warring told the BJP president, seeking his commitment that the BJP will cooperate with Punjab irrespective of the party that forms the state government.

“If forming a BJP government in Punjab is a precondition for the BJP-ruled Centre to address the state’s problems, then we may well have to wait for some time,” he said while pointing out that every Punjabi knows that the BJP cannot form the government in Punjab at any cost in the near future.

Referring to the presence of several former Congress leaders, who are now with the BJP, during Nabin’s visit, the PCC president said, “the fact that your current and the past state presidents are from the Congress reflects upon the plight of your organization that you have to depend on outsiders and you still have the audacity to claim that you will form the government in Punjab”.