Captain Amarinder Singh ‘nationalist’, open to alliance with him: BJP

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 20

Terming Captain Amarinder Singh a “nationalist”, BJP leaders today said the party was open to an alliance will all those who put the country and its interests first. “All parties who want to form an alliance with us on this agenda are welcome,” party’s Punjab affairs in-charge Dushyant Gautam was quoted as saying.

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On Capt Amarinder’s condition that the farmers’ issues must be first addressed, Gautam said the BJP was committed to the welfare of farmers, adding that nothing was final as yet.

“Amarinder Singh needs to form his party and declare his stand. As a soldier, he knows the threats to the country. We have always appreciated his stand on matters of national security,” the BJP leader said, dubbing the ongoing farmers’ agitation as “politically motivated”.

The former Punjab CM has hinted at the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the BJP, subject to “a satisfactory resolution of the farmers’ issue”.