Jalandhar: Punjab CM Chararjit Singh Channi spent the night before the day of the Republic in Dera Sachkhand in Ballan Village near Jalandhar and slept on the floor of the Dera Head of Sant Niranjan Dass Personal.
The religious order belongs to the Ad-Dharmi or Ravidasia community, a Dalit group that influences four regional Doaba regions that send 23 of the 117 MLA to the Punjab assembly.
Sleanover CM in Ballan Dera, instead of staying at government accommodation, was seen as a political step to reach out to people related to the sect before the assembly poll of February 20.
Channi is included in the Ad-Dharmi / Ravidassia community and has visited Dera several times after being CM last year.
During his visit on December 31, he announced establishing the Ravidas Bani Adhiyan Teacher Center (Research) in Ballan at a cost of Rs 50 Crore, handing over a check worth of Rs 25 Crore.
He also announced the establishment of the Teacher Committee Ravidas Bani Adhiyan Kendra Prabandhak to be led by Sant Niranjan Dass to manage the overall business of this center while CM, Tourism Secretary, and Deputy Regional Commissioner will become a government representative on the committee.
CM unfurled the national flag at Teacher Stadium Gobind Singh in Jalandhar on Wednesday morning and then went to Phagwara, where he told Congress workers and party candidates for the party MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal about the night of the room of Dera’s head.
“I received a call from several officers who advised me not to stay in Dera, but I said if I would be booked to stay at Dera then let me stay here.
I slept on the floor in the Baba Ji (Dera Head) and listened to His sermon calms his mind, “he said.
‘BSP gets a raw agreement at the address in Phagwara, where the President of the State of Bahujan Samaj, Jasbir Singh Garhi is a candidate from the Alliance of Sad-BSP, Channi launched a spicy attack on the leadership of BSP and even accused them of selling the party to Shiromani Akali Dal.
“Kanshi Ram established a party with a big vision but BSP leaders did not follow in his footsteps .
They have sold the party to the Akali Dal and have no relevance now.
They took money to provide tickets, “Channi’s alleged.
“In my constituency, Chamkaur Sahib, BSP got a seat or it was given to them by Shiromani Akali Dal because they were clear that they would lose.
There are also BSP, who have lowered the leader of the Acali.
In the agreement, they got a very weak chair at Urban areas such as Hoshiarpur and Pathankot where BSP is very weak and there are no questions to win.
People should not damage their voices by giving this to BSP, “he said.
CM Channi, who later discussed the meeting in the Constituency of the Philaur Assembly, also claimed that someone could see the agreement quietly between Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party (BJP) and now the Bahujan Party Cadre (BJP) (BJP) in the field also come to understand this real game.