Elections 2024: AAP, Congress behind farmers protest in Punjab, BJP denied right to campaign, says Sunil Jakhar

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has blamed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress of infiltrating the ongoing protests by farmers in the state. Jakhar, the former Congress leader, has accused the AAP and the Congress of denying the saffron party the right to campaign ahead of June 1 election to 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab. Also Read: ‘Narendra Modi can go to any...': AAP writes to Election Commission on graffiti threatening Arvind Kejriwal Farmers are preventing BJP candidates from entering into Punjab villages.

BJP leaders, for example, were reportedly booed and greeted with black flags in the Malwa and Majha belts of Punjab during the election campaign. “The protests are largely scripted. AAP and Congress workers have infiltrated the protests and are trying to deny the BJP its right to campaign.

This can have dangerous consequences as these elements can orchestrate violence against the farmers to present the BJP in a bad light. However, people are now aware of the ill designs of the AAP and the Congress," Jakhar said in an interview with the Indian Express. Also Read: Arvind Kejriwal hits out at PM Modi for 'sending all AAP leaders to jail': 'Thaanedar thode hi chuna tha' On May 6, Jakhar filed a complaint with Punjab’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C Sibin alleging that the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government had failed to ensure the right to campaign.

All 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab will vote in single phase on June 1. The BJP is contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab alone, without the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), for the first time since 1996. In 2019 elections, the Congress won 8 of the 13 seats, the SAD and the BJP won 2 each while the AAP won one seat.