Bharatiya Janata Party hits back at Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on the issue of deportees, accusing the AAP leader of playing politics over the matter.
Hitting back at Mann, BJP leader Tarun Chugh said on Saturday, "Bhagwant Mann sahab, people of Punjab want to know how the innocent youths went out, why they had to go, who were those who spoiled their lives.
Why they had to go adopting illegal routes, who sent them, and who were the fraudulent agents who spoiled their lives."
"The youths were forced to sell their land and houses. Rather than catching the culprits and acting against those who spoiled the lives of these youths, the 'AAP-da' party leader is doing politics over the issue," Chugh, who is also BJP's general secretary, said.
BJP's national spokesperson R P Singh also took a dig at Mann and told him to stop politicising the issue.
"Amritsar is the closest international airport for flights entering India from the US. That's why the plane carrying illegal immigrants is landing there. Stop politicising the issue and promoting conspiracy theories due to your lack of knowledge.@BhagwantMann," Singh said in a post on X.
"Rather than giving jobs in Punjab, the 'AAP-da' party has only given deteriorating law and order. Ransom has emerged as the new industry. Rather than giving employment, the industry, farming, and service sectors are moving in back gear," Chugh said.
"The Mann government has been in place for the past three years but it has failed to rein in fraudulent travel agents," he added.
Chugh also said the lives of Punjab's youth has been spoiled but "Mann is busy in marking his presence before Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi".
"The time he spent in pleasing his political bosses, had he devoted the same in breaking this nexus of fraudulent agents, the youth would have been saved from this plight," the BJP leader said.
Chugh also alleged that the AAP government has no policy for the youth, whom they have failed on all fronts.
The flight from the US is expected to land at the Amritsar airport around 10 pm on Saturday, official sources said. Among the 119 deportees, 100 are from Punjab and Haryana alone.
While 67 are from Punjab, 33 are from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The second batch of illegal Indian immigrants includes four women and two minors, including a six-year-old girl. Most of the deportees are in the age group of 18 to 30, sources said.
Mann on Friday questioned the move to land another plane at the Amritsar airport, as he accused the Centre of trying to defame Punjab as part of a conspiracy.
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