Political jostling in Punjab while eying on forthcoming assembly elections
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Punjab is gearing up for Assembly elections and will go to the polls in the first quarter of 2022.
Chandigarh: Political schizophrenia has gripped Punjab with the leaders of both the traditional as well as contemporary political parties swinging between political issues including three agri laws, sacrilege, drug abuse etc and their personal aggrandizement. The aim is to win the sympathy of voters by projecting themselves as 'lone saviors' and sympathizers of the common man while eying on the political dissenters of other parties to join their fold in the forthcoming 2022 assembly elections in the state. It has made the situation as an old chestnut goes 'prediction is very difficult'.
In other words, the political atmosphere of Punjab is not stable but turbulent especially after Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) (SAD-B) severing ties with its long time coalition partner BJP on the issue of three farm laws even withdrawing Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of SAD(B) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, from union cabinet and forging a new political alliance with Mayawati led-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Congress bearing the brunt of Navjot Singh Sidhu triggered infighting and heavy factionalism, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) attempting to make a space in the 'political vacuum' of Punjab and splinter Akali factions finding opportunities to make their presence felt in Punjab even as BJP has announced to contest all the 117 seats of Punjab alone.
The issues of Bargari sacrilege and Behbal Kalan firing are also on the top of the list of the political parties.