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?
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