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BJP saved the day for Akalis, says RSS mouthpiece

"BJP has proved to be the first choice of urban Hindus in Punjab"

New Delhi: An RSS mouthpiece has claimed that the BJP has saved many Akali seats in urban Punjab, won back the trust of the ``common nationalist'' voter and proved to be the first choice of urban Hindus in the State.

An article in Sangh mouthpiece Organiser has endorsed as ``significant'' former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's comments that the Congress lost to the BJP and not Parkash Singh Badal's Shiromani Akali Dal. ``The support the BJP gained is an endorsement of its recent policy corrections. Top on its agenda were aggressive advocacy of nationalist concern on internal and external security, opposition to sectarian and casteist appeasement by the UPA and commitment to good governance,'' the article titled ``saffron spring'' said.

In an unprecedented showing in the Sikh-majority State, the BJP has won 19 of the 23 seats it fought with a strike rate of 83 per cent. ``Many of the Akali urban seats were saved by the resurgent BJP. The party has proved the first choice of the urban Hindu voter,'' the article, which described the BJP's victory in Punjab as ``more politically'' significant than in Uttrakhand, said. It also called ``equally significant'' the drubbing of ``extremists like Simranjit Singh Mann'' of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar).

``What Amarinder Singh... said is significant. Congress lost the poll to the BJP, it lost the urban centres. Even the Akalis won most of the urban seats along with the BJP, though it lost some of its rural base to the Capitain (Amarinder Singh),'' the article noted. -- PTI

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