BJP to Contest All 13 Lok Sabha, 117 Assembly Seats in Punjab: State Party Chief

New Delhi : Newly-appointed Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar on Wednesday said his aim would be to strengthen the party on all 13 Lok Sabha and 117 assembly seats and present the outfit as the most viable alternative to the existing political parties in the state.

After a thanksgiving meeting with BJP president JP Nadda at the party headquarters in the capital today, Jakhar refrained from making any direct comments on possibilities of a remarriage with the Shiromani Akali Dal, which has quit the NDA in 2021 protesting the three farm laws.

Jakhar recalled the decades long BJP-Shiromani Akali Dal alliance in the state to say that the pact had limitations for the saffron dispensation which was restricted to fighting only 23 assembly seats in the state.

Jakhar also said that Punjab politics had become a one horse race under the ruling Aam Aadmi Party with the entire opposition losing its steam and unable to engage Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on issues riling the state, including mounting financial debt, deteriorating law and order situation and a lingering sense of insecurity among citizens.

“In such a situation the BJP is the only alternative to the existing political parties in the state,” he said.

Jakhar was named the new Punjab BJP chief in party revamp yesterday.