Punjab Assembly poll | We will be fighting on performance, says former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar

He opines party has to to do well in the upcoming Assembly elections in five States

With the 2022 Punjab Assembly election a few months away, the ruling Congress, which has been facing turmoil within its State unit amid power tussles among senior leaders, is staring at the stiff task of retaining power.

As the party prepares to press into intense electioneering mode, former Punjab Congress Committee president Sunil Jakhar in an exclusive interview says that before getting into any kind of electoral battle, an assurance that “all sections of society are equal” needs to be extended by the Congress to a section of Punjab’s community, which is at present anxious amid certain senior Congress leaders’ utterances that only a Sikh must be the Chief Minister of the State. He says the conduct and utterances of certain leaders have created a bogey of ‘religious identity’ in Punjab, which is neither the Congress’s ethos nor the ethos of ‘Punjabiyat’.

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