Preneet Kaur, BJP's candidate from Patiala speaks with Outlook's Ashwani Sharma about the split between Akali Dal and the Bhartiya Janata Party during this election in Punjab. She also reflects on the farmers protests, the growing drug issue, and the overall governance by the Bhagwant Mann-led opposition in Punjab.
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00:00I am Ashwini Sharma from Outlook and today we are in Punjab, in Patiala.
00:10Patiala is a constituency where the sitting MP Parineet Kaur and the wife of ex-CM Amrandar
00:19Singh have recently left Congress and joined the BJP.
00:25You are a veteran of so many elections, so how difficult and how easy is this election
00:31under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a BJP candidate?
00:35I think every election has a different atmosphere and the atmosphere now is very different.
00:48Normally two major parties used to fight with each other in Punjab, Kali Dal BJP together
00:56and Congress.
00:57Now there are four corners, there are also six corners of the four corners, there is
01:05Mandal and there is also BSP.
01:09BJP has an election on the flower of the lotus, the organization was not so strong because
01:26they used to fight with the organization of the Kali Dal, so now the organization is also
01:32not so strong.
01:33BJP has become a strong organization, but it is in the mode of election, it is not as
01:45experienced as others, but the age is such that people who are new to it, they do a good
01:53job and people also like to listen to them and the rest of the BJP party and Modi ji
02:03is our biggest asset, the most valuable thing on which we will put vote is the name of Modi
02:14ji, so it is the name of the party, the work he has done is that.
02:19Ma'am, we were leaving from the office where you are inaugurating today, some farmers have
02:26gathered again, as you have had their experience before, so how do you deal with this issue
02:32that the farmers are mobilized and are still going to the elections, stopping the BJP candidates,
02:40you have also done it to other people, so how are you dealing with this?
02:45See what to do, we will try that wherever we can go, we will go, it is the right of the
02:52farmers to mobilize, but it is also our right that we go freely, talk about ourselves and
03:00then it is the right of the people to vote freely, without any fear, wherever they want to vote.
03:05This should be the environment.
03:07Mr. Jakhar has also requested the Election Commission to help smoothen our campaign.
03:15Is the government creating such an environment that there are no disturbances in the elections,
03:22candidates should not be stopped?
03:25It is not doing anything, but the administration on the direction of the Election Commission,
03:32the police, is definitely trying that the BJP candidates, wherever they have kept them,
03:40they can go and do their campaign.
03:43Ma'am, what are the big issues in the elections in Punjab at the moment, and is the performance
03:51of the government also an issue at the moment?
03:54Look, there are a lot of issues, local issues, but the main issue at the moment is the country.
04:05This is a national election, it is the election of the government of India, not that it is
04:12the election of the province.
04:14I have been here for 2.5-3 years with Ma'am, after that we will see what happens in 2027.
04:22But the governance that they have given so far, I have not seen anything on the ground.
04:30They say whatever they want, they have spent all the money, advertised it, in the provinces
04:38by running their reels, that Punjab is so good, Punjab is so good, to promote you,
04:47they have spent the money of Punjab.
04:50Ma'am, when the elections of Punjab were postponed, they had two big promises,
04:56one is that Punjab will be drug-free, the other is that we will correct the law and order,
05:01we will remove corruption, has the government fulfilled these promises?
05:06Absolutely zero, corruption is at an all-time high, you go out and ask a common man,
05:13and there is a lot of drugs, you go to the village, when you get up and talk to the ladies,
05:20they say that we are fine, we have got facilities, they say that what will we do on the roofs,
05:27what will we do when our entire future is over, our children are finished with drugs,
05:34even our children have become thieves, they steal for drugs, to take money,
05:40they say what will a mother's heart be, and this is happening in every home,
05:47so have they fulfilled any promise?