Punjab BJP chief accuses AAP government of posters on war heroes' memorial

Bharatiya Janata Party's Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar accused the Aam Aadmi Party-led government of pasting party posters on war memorial stones and undermining the honour of fallen soldiers. Jakhar said that the act was "downright shameful and despicable".

The structure dedicated to war heroes was inaugurated under the Centre's Meri Maati Mera Desh programme.

Accusing the state government of "trying to undermine the memory of fallen soldiers" for petty political gains, the Punjab BJP chief said, "These stones have been put up as part of PM Narendra Modi Ji's vision to perpetuate the memory of our real-life heroes among all citizens, as part of ambitious Meri Maati Mera Desh."

Jakhar said, "AAP has stooped so low that now it cannot even spare our country's sons and daughters. Earlier too, AAP had literally forced the shutting down of the NHM (national health mission) scheme by diverting central funds in the name of failed Aam Aadmi Clinics. Acts like these show the true vile face of AAP leaders who otherwise boast of creating a Punjab of Shaheed-e-Aazam Bhagat Singh's dreams and yet cannot even spare the memory stones of soldiers who laid down their lives for the motherland."

This comes after the BJP, on Saturday, objected to a liquor shop in Punjab’s Jalandhar with a “women-friendly shop” written on a board. Criticising it, the BJP has attacked the state Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the liquor shop board. Later, the BJP clarified the board was removed "following media coverage".

BJP's media secretary stated that it was “extremely shameful to have a board on a shop indicating it's female friendly, making it evident that women were being invited for alcohol in Punjab.”