A drug trade figure who allegedly moved ₹736 crore in narcotics money through personal bank accounts is now at the centre of a political firestorm — because AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of forging an electoral alliance with precisely that individual to recapture Punjab.

Posting on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Kejriwal wrote in Hindi: 'Jisne Punjab mein 736 crore rupaye ka nasha bechkar woh paise apne bankon mein jama karvaye, Amit Shah ji uske saath gathbandhan karke Punjab ko phir se nashe mein duboane ki taiyari kar rahe hain.' ('The person who sold drugs worth ₹736 crore in Punjab and deposited that money in his own banks — Amit Shah is now allying with him, preparing to drown Punjab in drugs once again.')

Kejriwal then sharpened the barb with a pointed question: 'Will drugs now be brought via Gujarat and sold in Punjab?' He closed with a direct appeal to Punjabi pride — 'Punjabis will simply not allow this to happen.'

The Drug Issue That Has Defined Punjab Politics Since 2022

Drug trafficking has been the single most combustible issue in Punjab's political landscape for over a decade. When AAP swept the 2022 Punjab assembly elections, the party ran its entire campaign around a promise to eradicate the drug menace — a vow that resonated with a state that had watched a generation of its youth consumed by addiction.

That mandate gave AAP the moral licence to turn the drug issue into its sharpest political weapon. Every subsequent alliance announcement, police posting, or cross-border seizure gets processed through this lens by both AAP and its opponents. Kejriwal's post fits neatly into that ongoing pattern — an accusation designed to pre-emptively taint any BJP alliance strategy before it can consolidate.

The Gujarat Route Jab — and What It Signals

The reference to Gujarat is not incidental. It invokes a line of attack that AAP has periodically deployed against the BJP's home state — alleging that drug consignments have moved through Gujarat's ports and highways. By connecting that accusation to Punjab's next electoral cycle, Kejriwal is attempting to build a narrative arc: a Gujarat-origin alliance partner, a Gujarat-origin drug corridor, one ruling party threading them together.

The BJP has not yet responded to the specific allegations in this post. The unnamed individual referenced by Kejriwal — and the ₹736 crore figure — remain unverified by independent sources. The figure itself, however precise it sounds, is drawn from Kejriwal's own assertion and should be treated as a political claim until corroborated.

Why Punjab's Voters Are the Real Audience

With the next Punjab assembly elections on the horizon, both AAP and BJP are already manoeuvring for position. For AAP, holding Punjab requires keeping its 2022 anti-drugs mandate credible. For the BJP, any alliance in the state must navigate the toxicity of the drug issue. Kejriwal's post is a calculated strike at exactly that vulnerability — making the alliance cost visible before it is even formalised.

The appeal to 'Punjabi' identity in the closing line is deliberate: it frames resistance not as an AAP partisan position but as a collective duty of the people of Punjab. It is the language of a party that wants to own a state-defining issue, not merely contest an election.

If the BJP formalises the alliance Kejriwal is describing, it will face a well-prepared counter-narrative. If it does not, the accusation still shapes the political weather — and that, in Punjab's charged electoral climate, may be exactly the point.