Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Monday took a dig at the “alliance” between the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) while dubbing it as an “unholy act”.
“After parting ways in Haryana, the continuation of the SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab is an unholy act...the SAD-BJP alliance is a marriage of convenience, continuing under political compulsion,” said Jakhar while talking with the media persons after addressing two rallies in support of Congress’ Phagwara nominee Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal.
Notably, the SAD has decided to contest the assembly polls in Haryana in alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) after the BJP did not agree to its demand for 20 to 25 seats, and inducted the Akali Dal’s lone MLA in Haryana into the saffron party while the talks regarding the alliance was on.
Jakahr asked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as to how his party was in alliance with the SAD, which was the “mother of corruption”. He said that Modi was trumpeting internationally that his government was clean, “but his party is in an unholy alliance with the SAD that is the mother of corruption”.
Earlier, addressing party workers at Lakhpur village, Jakhar termed the bypolls a mid-term examination for the State Government, while adding that the Congress party would definitely pass it with full marks on the strength of the State Government’s performance.
At the same time, he warned against the Centre’s “anti-farmer” policies alleging that American President Donald Trump had given a hug to Modi on a condition of not buying fuel from Iran, who had threatened that it would not buy “basmati” from India.
“This will ruin Punjab farmers whose basmati is bought by Iran,” he said, terming the foreign policy of the Modi Government a flawed one.