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At present, this bill is a waste of time,\u201d Raju said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the AAP government had used the platform of the Vidhan Sabha to \u201ccreate a new drum\u201d for political mileage. While there was a need to bring a proper law against sacrilege, the state government had done \u201cdrama\u201d by bringing this bill after three and a half years in power, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Raju also claimed that while it was being propagated that the bill provided for imprisonment ranging from 10 years to life, there was no mention of life imprisonment anywhere in the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: The Punjab BJP today burnt a copy of the anti-sacrilege bill introduced in the Punjab Assembly, calling it a \u201cdrama\u201d by the Mann government to cover up its failures. Addressing a press conference, BJP state general secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju said the Punjab Prevention of Crimes against Holy Scriptures Bill, 2025, had no merit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[6572,847,6569,6568,6567,6570,6574,6573,6575,6571],"class_list":["post-46279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news","category-punjab","tag-raju-said-he-said-the-aap-government-had-used-the-platform-of-the-vidhan-sabha-to-create-a-new-drum-for-political-mileage-while-there-was-a-need-to-bring-a-proper-law-aga","tag-847","tag-bjp-state-general-secretary-jagmohan-singh-raju-said-the-punjab-prevention-of-crimes-against-holy-scriptures-bill","tag-calling-it-a-drama-by-the-mann-government-to-cover-up-its-failures-addressing-a-press-conference","tag-chandigarh-the-punjab-bjp-today-burnt-a-copy-of-the-anti-sacrilege-bill-introduced-in-the-punjab-assembly","tag-had-no-merit-and-did-not-even-define-sacrilege-clearly-the-mann-government-has-completely-failed-and-is-now-trying-to-cover-up-its-failures-by-bringing-this-bill-in-the-punjab-assembly-at-p","tag-he-said-raju-also-claimed-that-while-it-was-being-propagated-that-the-bill-provided-for-imprisonment-ranging-from-10-years-to-life","tag-the-state-government-had-done-drama-by-bringing-this-bill-after-three-and-a-half-years-in-power","tag-there-was-no-mention-of-life-imprisonment-anywhere-in-the-bill","tag-this-bill-is-a-waste-of-time"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Punjab BJP burns copy of anti-sacrilege bill - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/punjab-bjp-burns-copy-of-anti-sacrilege-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab BJP burns copy of anti-sacrilege bill - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chandigarh: The Punjab BJP today burnt a copy of the anti-sacrilege bill introduced in the Punjab Assembly, calling it a \u201cdrama\u201d by the Mann government to cover up its failures. 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