Congress made Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab CM for few months to seize Dalit votes: BJP

The BJP alleged on Monday that the Congress has made Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab chief minister for just a few months merely to seize Dalit votes as a part of its conspiracy, and cited earlier cases of the occasion giving the important thing place to a pacesetter from the group just for a brief tenure. Hitting out on the Congress, BJP normal secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, who’s the occasion’s in-charge for the state, famous the reported assertion of Harish Rawat that the Congress will struggle the meeting elections below its state chief Navjot Singh Sidhu‘s management.

Rawat is the Congress’ pointsman for dealing with its Punjab affairs.

“This is an old habit of the Congress. It believes that it can capture Dalit vote bank by making a Dalit chief minister for a few months. A conspiracy is being hatched in Punjab to grab Dalit vote bank,” Gautam mentioned.

He famous that the Congress had made Dalit chief Sushil Kumar Shinde Maharashtra chief minister in 2003 however changed him with Vilasrao Deshmukh when it received the 2004 meeting election.

Similarly, he mentioned, the Congress had made Jagannath Pahadia Rajasthan’s chief minister in 1980 however eliminated him in over a yr.

Gautam, additionally a Dalit chief, alleged that the Congress has resorted to this tactic typically and claimed that it typically used former deputy prime minister Jagjivan Ram to get the votes of the group however “insulted” him and even eliminated him from the occasion when it got here to giving him his due.

The Congress additionally by no means gave B R Ambedkar Bharat Ratna or made memorial in his identify or did something to protect his reminiscence, the BJP chief claimed.

“The Congress has humiliated Dalits innumerable times,” he alleged.

Channi, 58, was on Monday sworn in as chief minister of Punjab, making him the primary Dalit to carry the highest submit within the state.

The state will go to the polls early subsequent yr.