JALANDHAR: At his first physical election rally ahead of the Punjab polls in Jalandhar on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded on the party slogan “Nawan Punjab, Bhajpa de naal” (new Punjab with BJP), and made a pitch for a new Punjab that would be free of debt, corruption, mafia and drugs and full of opportunities for everybody. Referring to the “unprecedented enthusiasm for change” in Punjab, he said that he was sure that Punjab would have a BJP-led alliance government.
Striving to strike a chord with the people, he said, “Punjab has given me so much that whatever I do to repay it adds to my resolve to do more.”
Urging the crowd to raise the slogan, “Nawan Punjab, Bhajpa de naal”, he said, “A new chapter of development is starting in Punjab. Country can progress only if Punjab progresses….”
Focusing on the issue of drugs, he said that BJP would leave no stone unturned to make Punjab drug free. He then asked the people, especially the women, to visualize if a family had everything and every comfort in life but what would happen if a son of the family fell in the drug trap.
