CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today asked the Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal as why was he so desperate for an electoral alliance with the BJP that he had to make a U-turn on a sensitive matter like delimitation of the assembly and parliamentary constituencies.
Warring recalled and reminded Sukhbir that just three months ago in the month of April, his party had strongly opposed the Delimitation Bill and described it against the interests of Punjab. “SO, what changed within these three months that you started seeing merit in the same bill, you otherwise found against Punjab’s interests?” he asked, while remarking, “Sukhbir has turned more loyal than the king within no time”.
The PCC president noted that the reasons are obvious that Sukhbir, who is desperate for his political survival, is desperately trying to woo the BJP so that it agrees for an electoral alliance ahead of the 2027 assembly elections in the state.
He said, when the Akalis had failed to reach an alliance with the BJP ahead of the parliamentary elections, Sukhbir had claimed that he did not want to compromise on the interests of Punjab. “Now that you are desperate for your own survival, you have simply forgotten the interests of Punjab for which you claimed to had taken a stand in 2024”, Warring reminded Sukhbir, telling him that his political opportunism was exposed once again.
The PCC president asserted that even if the Akalis and the BJP come together for the elections, they stand absolutely no chance of victory. “People of Punjab have neither forgotten the sacrilege, nor the atrocities on farmers that the two parties are respectively guilty of”, he observed, adding, “their coming together will hardly make any difference to their electoral fortunes, but will instead expose their opportunism”.
