State BJP will respond in four times louder language as CM Mann: Ashwani Sharma

“The Punjab BJP will respond in the same language that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann uses, but it will be four times louder,” said the newly appointed working president of the Punjab BJP, Ashwani Sharma, while taking over his new charge at a ceremony in the party office here on Sunday.He was referring to the CM Mann’s outburst against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in recent days.Mann had criticised PM’s recent five-nation tour as “irresponsible and regrettable”. He also referred to Amit Shah as “Tadipaar”.Sharma accused Mann of “running a circus instead of a government over the past three years and four months. Mann seems to have forgotten that he is no longer a stage performer, but holds a constitutional office as the Chief Minister of Punjab. He is overlooking the basic decency of language needed in addressing the head of the country.”

Present on the occasion were the state president of the BJP Punjab, Sunil Jakhar, Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, National Secretary Narinder Singh Raina, Member of Parliament, Satnam Singh Sandhu, Member Parliamentary Board Iqbal Singh Lalpura and state general secretary (organisation) Manthri Srinivasulu. The event was also attended by former Union ministers Parneet Kaur and Somprakash and former ministers from the state, including Manpreet Badal, Tikshan Sood, Surjit Jayani, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, and Dinesh Babbu.

The working president said the government had failed to deliver on Arvind Kejriwal’s January 12, 2022, promise of ensuring justice within 30 days in sacrilege cases, including Bargari, through fast-track courts. The government had also failed in eliminating drug menace “within 30 days of assuming power as promised”. Law and order in Punjab is at its nadir and gangsters are operating openly with impunity.

Speaking on the ongoing Bhakra Beas Management Board issue, he said, “Mann’s government has neglected Punjab’s interests by failing to fill the state’s quota of 2,550 posts in the board over the past three years. Instead of addressing the real issue, the government was wrongly creating noise over the deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force.”

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