Targeting Charanjit Singh Channi ahead of next week’s single-phase assembly elections in Punjab, Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Sunday sought to know if the chief minister, who failed to provide a secure route to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would be able to keep the state safe.
“Channi sahib is dreaming of forming a Congress government in Punjab again. A CM who cannot provide a secure route to the Prime Minister of India, can he provide security to Punjab?” Shah said at an election rally in Ludhiana, according to news agency ANI.
On January 5, PM Modi’s convoy came to a halt on a flyover on the Ferozepur-Moga highway as the route ahead was blocked by farmers who were protesting against the Prime Minister’s visit to the border state. Modi, who was scheduled to address a rally in Ferozepur, his first in Punjab since withdrawing the three contentious central farm laws in November last year, returned to Delhi without addressing the event.
