Chandigarh, February 26
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Punjab will organize a ‘Badlav Rally’ in Moga on March 14, which will be addressed by senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Making this announcement, Punjab BJP Working State President Ashwani Sharma said that every section of Punjab, distressed on all fronts, has made up its mind to oust the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from power and now considers the BJP a reliable and credible alternative for change.
On March 16, 2026, the AAP government led by what he termed a “remote-controlled” Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann from Delhi will complete four years in office. “In these four years, far from fulfilling electoral guarantees and promises, the AAP government has failed to ensure the rule of law in Punjab. Sharma alleged that the government has taken U-turns on every promise made before coming to power”, he said.
Sharma said that the law and order situation in Punjab is in shambles, while corruption linked to the drug and mining mafia is rampant. The health and education systems are deteriorating, and employees are not receiving salaries and pensions on time. The culprits in sacrilege cases have not been punished, while AAP’s own leaders, MPs and MLAs are accusing their party colleagues of collusion with the mafia. Mann not only failed to fulfill the promise of providing MSP on every crop, but in the past four years farmers have allegedly faced reductions even in the MSP for wheat and paddy sent by the Centre. Traders are distressed by what Sharma described as “tax recovery terror” of the Punjab government. In four years, the AAP government has neither built new roads in cities, towns, and villages nor even repaired potholes.
Sharma further stated that incidents of chain snatching are occurring daily across villages, towns, and cities in Punjab. Extortion calls are now being made not only to big businessmen but even to small grocery shopkeepers selling flour and pulses. Kabaddi players are being killed in broad daylight. Gangsters are openly firing shots and killing at will, and now even incidents are taking place fearlessly outside police stations and SSP offices.
Sharma alleged that the Punjab Police, which once eradicated terrorism from the state, has been kept so busy by Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann in settling political scores with opponents that it has failed to prevent grenade attacks on its own police stations.
In conclusion, Sharma said that in the 2027 Assembly elections, the people of Punjab will get rid of the AAP government and form a BJP “double-engine” government in the state, putting Punjab back on the path of development.
