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Punjab will be BJP’s nemesis, says Capt

Capt Amarinder Singh
HT Correspondent

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Chandigarh : Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday told the BJP leadership that Punjab would prove to be the party’s nemesis, claiming that the party, which failed to muster candidates to contest on even 50% of the civic body seats in the state, was trying pathetically to shift blame for the farmers’ wrath on the Congress.

The BJP should start preparing itself for political oblivion, said the CM, adding that the party’s fate is now sealed, not just in Punjab but also at the Centre, where its despotic rule is all set to end. “The farm laws will spell the death knell for this repressive, despotic and autocratic party. For nearly seven years, they have trampled over human rights, as well as the dignity and aspirations of Indians in every possible way, and now it is the people’s turn,” he alleged in a statement.

Amarinder said if the so-called urban party could not find candidates to field in more than half of the state’s civic body seats, one can only imagine what they will face in rural Punjab if they ever decide to contest. “What you see on the roads, and which you allege to be the Congress handiwork, is the spontaneous anger triggered among farmers by your arrogant anti-farmer attitude,” he said, rejecting Punjab BJP’s claims that the protestors it is facing on its campaign trail for the upcoming municipal polls are not farmers but Congress workers.

The CM said that given the threat perception due to the farmers’ ire against the BJP, Punjab Police are deploying unprecedented number of personnel wherever their leaders are going for campaigning