CHANDIGARH: BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh on Tuesday said if voted to power in Punjab, the party would bring in an anti-conversion bill. He said large-scale conversions are taking place in rural parts of the state.
Addressing an election rally in Ferozepur, Chugh said Punjab is in grip of a conspiracy of some foreign powers which have been rampantly engaged in conversions and have become a major threat to the security of the state. He said Punjab needed to be saved from such forces as poor and gullible people are being targeted for conversions, following which the traditional social structure in the state is on the verge of collapse. Chugh said national security has been on the top of BJP’s agenda for which the party must be voted to power. “There was a big threat to our national security from Pakistan, which has been pushing consignments of arms, ammunition and narcotics to Punjab and it is so unfortunate and highly condemnable that Punjab leaders like PCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu have been calling Pakistan Prime Minister as a ‘messiah of peace’. Sidhu has been projecting Imran Khan as his friend even as he (Khan) and the ISI have been sending consignments of arms and narcotics recklessly to Punjab posing a big security threat.” He said under the Channi government, the law and order situation in Punjab has completely collapsed which was a matter of serious concern for the people of the border state. He said the time has come for the voters to throw out the Congress government and give BJP a chance to rule.
