Chandigarh : BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Friday slammed the Punjab Congress over promoting gun culture and separatist forces in the state. He hits at Punjab Congress for inducing a controversial singer Sidhu Moosewala in the party.
Chugh said that it had exposed the Congress’s nefarious designs to destabilise Punjab.
While underlining that Moosewala had been booked in multiple cases by Punjab Police for promoting gun culture and also under the Arms Act, Chugh said the Congress’s support to such criminal elements in society is a warning bell for the state.
Chugh recalled that in December 2020 Moosewala had sung songs glorifying Bhindranwale and other separatist leaders.
He said it is a black day in Punjab’s political history when the Congress had come out openly in support of those promoting gun culture and glorifying gangsters in provocative songs.
He claimed that Congress is sending wrong signals to the youth in Punjab which might weaken the stability of a region.
As Punjab has many serious concerning issues like Punjab Congress president Navjot Sidhu’s proximity to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, and now the Punjab Congress had started glorifying gangsters and gun culture, Chugh said.
On Friday Singer Sidhu Moosewala joined Congress at Chandigarh. The alliance took place in the presence of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Moosewala is a controversial singer. He is known for flaunting guns and police cases in his song videos. This alliance took place before the Punjab Assembly Elections due early next year.
Moosewala, after being taken into the party fold, said he had started his music career four years ago, but was now ready to take a new step in his life. “I still Iive in the same house in my village. My father is an ex-serviceman and my mother is a sarpanch. Residents of my area, Bathinda and Mansa, are associated with me. They have expectations from me,” he said.
“I am not entering politics for status or to earn praise. I want to become a part of the system to transform it. I am joining the Congress to raise the voices of the people. I am joining the Congress as the party has leaders who have come from common families. For instance, cabinet minister Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has risen from a common family,” he added.
Describing Moosewala as a person who knows the sentiments of the youth and gives them direction, Channi said his induction in the Congress marks a “big day” in the political arena of the state.
Earlier, while welcoming Moosewala into the party, Sidhu said, “We are taking Sidhu Moosewala in party fold. He will fight the election for us.”
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