Political parties make pitch for 2027 Punjab election at Maghi Mela

Key governmental parties successful Punjab connected Wednesday utilized the level of Muktsar Sahib’s Maghi Mela, an important spiritual and taste event, to scope retired to voters successful the run-up to the 2027 Assembly election. The yearly gathering commemorates the Sikh martyrs who fought against Mughal forces successful 1705.

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the authorities volition fulfil the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) canvass committedness of providing ₹1,000 per period to each pistillate successful the State with the required provisions to beryllium made successful the adjacent budget. Addressing a gathering, helium said, “We person honoured each committedness made to the radical and present we volition commencement a strategy to springiness ₹1,000 to each pistillate of the State.”

Taking a excavation astatine Opposition parties, Mr. Mann said they are simply waiting for their crook to plunder Punjab.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) besides sounded the canvass bugle astatine the event, with enactment president Sukhbir Singh Badal asserting its committedness to “correcting humanities injustices” similar diverting Punjab’s h2o to Rajasthan done the Indira Gandhi canal. He announced a fig of canvass promises, including escaped tubewell connections for farmers and interest-free loans worthy ₹10 lakh for the youth.

Meanwhile, the BJP held its archetypal autarkic governmental rally astatine the Maghi Mela, suggesting that it intends to contention the 2027 canvass connected its own. “The BJP understands its work towards Punjab and knows that lone the enactment tin bring the State retired of this hard period,” said State portion president Sunil Jakhar.

Staying away

The Congress, however, refrained from holding a governmental rally connected the occasion. “In December 2017, then jathedar (chief priest) of the Akal Takht Giani Gurbachan Singhji had appealed to governmental parties not to clasp governmental events connected specified solemn and pious spiritual occasions,” said State Congress main Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.