“Good luck and goodbye.” The parting shot to the Congressdelivered as a Facebook Live video whereas the celebration held its chintan shivir in Jaipur, was quintessentially Sunil Jakhar – capturing from the hip, as he has so typically within the latest previous because the Congress in Punjab swung from one disaster to a different.
On Thursday, six days after he stop the Congress, within the course of utilizing a mixture of verse and a few straight discuss to lash out on the high management, Jakhar joined the BJPa celebration he has spent his political profession attacking.
Though Jakhar, a three-time-MLA and one-time MP, has by no means been seen as a mass chief, many see his entry into the BJP as a win-win for each side.
In Jakhar, the BJP has acquired a formidable Hindu face within the state whereas for the three-time-MLA and one-time MP, the BJP provides a platform that may accommodate his expertise.
Jakhar’s clear picture – he doesn’t carry any corruption taint or baggage – is one other plus for the BJP. Son of the late Balram Jakhar, the longest serving Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a staunch Gandhi household loyalist, Jakhar is a Jat Hindu chief however makes it a degree to underline the secular character of the state and its folks.
In the midst of the management disaster within the Congress authorities, when Amarinder Singh was eliminated as Punjab CM, Jakhar was among the many frontrunners for the publish till senior Congress chief Ambika Soni is alleged to have insisted on a Sikh as CM. A damage Jakhar had then mentioned, “The making up of this Hindu vs Sikh issue is an insult to Punjab, which is so secular in character. We have faced so much in the state. It has come back to normal with so much effort.”
On Thursday, too, as he joined the BJP, he made it a degree to say that Punjab is a template for communal concord and brotherhood.
Sources near him say Jakhar, after parting methods with the Congress, had two choices – AAP or the BJP. Going with the AAP, a celebration which swept Punjab, profitable 92 of the 117 Assembly seats, would have given Jakhar little or no area, they are saying. On the opposite hand, he would discover larger flexibility within the BJP, which, regardless of its humiliating ballot route in Punjab (the celebration solely received two seats), goes all out to maximise its attain within the border state, the sources say, pointing to the back-to-back conferences that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has held with Sikh teams and spiritual leaders.
The celebration can be going all out to drag in leaders from the Congress and Akali Dal. Former Akali Dal chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa, a potent Sikh voice, and Congress leaders Fateh Jang Singh Bajwa and Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi are amongst those that have gone on to affix the BJP.
On Thursday, Punjab Lok Congress chief and former CM Captain Amarinder Singh, whose Punjab Lok Congress had allied with the BJP, congratulated Jakhar, calling him the “right man in the right party”.
“Honest and upright leaders like Sunil can not breathe within the Congress anymore. I used to be the CM and Sunil was the PCC president and every little thing was going effectively and we had been set to repeat the federal government simply lower than a 12 months in the past when one incorrect resolution by the management proved suicidal,” Amarinder added.
While quitting the Congress on May 14, Jakhar had underlined that Amarinder Singh was effectively positioned as Punjab CM, however Rawat was despatched to “destabilise” him.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
