Punjab polls: Congress begins campaign; BJP takes a dig

Even as the Congress party on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) began its public outreach campaign — ‘Punjab Mangda Insaaf’ (Punjab Demands Justice) — in the run-up to the 2027 Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party hit out at the Congress over its campaign, saying that a party, whose leaders were involved in anti Sikhs riots in 1984 has no moral right to speak about “justice” in Punjab.

Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Pargat Singh participated in a series of engagements in Mohali as a part of the party’s campaign, which the party asserts to aim to build a collective movement against the growing menace of drugs, crime, corruption and the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab.

Mr. Bajwa said the campaign was not merely a political campaign but a struggle for Punjab’s rights, dignity and a better future. “The Congress would bring together every section connected with Punjab, demand answers from the Aam Aadmi Party government and present a development roadmap for 2027 based on suggestions received from the people,” he said.

Punjab BJP President Kewal Singh Dhillon, meanwhile alleged that the claims made in Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s newly released memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’, concerning former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the June 1984 Operation Blue Star, were calculated political ploy to whitewash the sins of the Congress.

“What does an ‘Insaaf Yatra’ mean in Punjab without full justice for the 1984 victims and a public, unconditional apology from Congress for its heinous crimes?” he said in a statement.

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Mr. Dhillon alleged that for decades, successive Congress governments protected the guilty of anti-Sikh riots and handed out clean chits. “It was only after the Modi led BJP government took office in 2014 and constituted a dedicated Special Investigation Team (SIT) that justice finally caught up with the perpetrators,” he added.