The national president of the saffron brigade, Amit Shah, will visit Punjab next month on June 28 and 29, as a part of his 95-day country-wide tour which began in Jammu the previous month.
“BJP president Shah will be in Punjab on June 28 and 29...He may also address party workers at Amritsar and Jalandhar,” said Union Minister Vijay Sampla, who is also party’s Punjab unit president. “The venues will be finalised in a meeting of the party’s general secretaries,” he said.
Shah is travelling across States to strategise and find ways to strengthen the party at the grass-roots level with an eye on the 2019 lok Sabha polls.
Meanwhile, Sampla maintained that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are “pro-Dalit”.
Sampla, himself a Dalit, was replying to a question about the massive dharna by Dalits, including the Bheem Army at Delhi a day before protesting the alleged biased role of the Uttar Pradesh police in Saharanpur violence.
“Both Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi are pro-Dalit, pro-poor and pro-farmer,” Sampla said.
He said that the role of the Government in maintaining law and order in UP and Yogi’s performance are up to mark.
Sampla, speaking to the journalists, accused Capt Amarinder Singh-led Congress Government in Punjab of being cut off from public. “It has miserably failed to implement its poll promises...In the 64-65 days of its rule, over 45 farmers have committed suicide while law and order is in a bad shape as many Congress leaders, including some MlAs, are promoting gang wars and gun-culture,” he alleged.
He added that the development work in Punjab have come to stand still.
Stoutly denying the allegations that any Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from the State was in touch with the BJP, Sampla dared AAP leader HS Phoolka to name the person who had offered Rs 15 crore to any of their MlAs so that action could be taken.
AAP had, in the past, alleged that money was offered to their MlAs in Punjab to switch allegiance.