A firestorm of accusations landed on Friday, October 16, 2026, when AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal unleashed a pointed broadside at the BJP, alleging it is conspiring once again to flood Punjab with drugs — this time through what he called a partnership with its own 'chitta party' and allegedly using the Adani Ports route as a conduit.

In the Hindi-language post, Kejriwal charged: 'पंजाब में अदानी पोर्ट के रास्ते नशा फैलाने वाले आप लोग!' ('You people who spread drugs in Punjab through the Adani Port route!'). He went on to allege that the same party had sheltered gangsters inside Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad, and had worked with a 'chitta party' — street slang for heroin dealers — between 2007 and 2017 to fuel the drug trade across the state.

The 'chitta party' charge and what it recalls

The phrase 'chitta party' is a loaded reference in Punjab politics. Chitta is the colloquial term for heroin in the state, and accusing a political party of being synonymous with its trade is among the sharpest attacks in the region's electoral vocabulary. Kejriwal claimed the party is now dreaming of 'earning billions again by selling drugs in Punjab' after having allegedly failed to profit sufficiently in states it has governed for years.

AAP's sweeping 2022 Punjab election victory was built substantially on a promise to break the drug-trafficking networks that have devastated the state's youth for more than a decade. The accusation that a rival is trying to restore those networks carries direct emotional weight for families across the state's border districts.

Chandigarh, Punjab University, river waters — the triple threat

Kejriwal did not stop at drugs. He accused the BJP of also having 'dirty eyes' — 'गंदी नज़र' — on three politically sensitive prizes: Punjab's river waters, Panjab University in Chandigarh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh itself. Each is a perennial flashpoint.

Control over the Chandigarh administration has been the subject of recurring centre-state friction, with AAP having contested several municipal appointments in the territory. Panjab University, one of the oldest public universities in the region, similarly sits at the intersection of Punjab's identity politics and federal jurisdiction. River water sharing — particularly the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal dispute — remains an unresolved wound in Punjab's relationship with the central government and neighbouring states.

The three farm laws warning

Kejriwal's sharpest political warning came at the close of his post: 'आप फिर से तीनों काले क़ानून लाना चाहते हो?' — 'Do you want to bring back the three black laws again?' The three central agricultural laws, enacted in September 2020, triggered one of India's most sustained protest movements, centred overwhelmingly in Punjab and the surrounding farm belt, before being repealed in December 2021. Invoking them is a direct appeal to the agrarian community's memory of that year-long struggle. His closing line was unambiguous: 'Punjab will never allow this.'

The post arrives as a combative early salvo ahead of what is shaping up to be a politically charged period in the state. AAP has governed Punjab since its historic victory in early 2022, and any challenge to its anti-drugs, pro-farmer narrative strikes at the heart of its mandate. Kejriwal is telling Punjab's voters: the forces that were defeated in 2022 are coming back — and he intends to make sure they remember why they voted the way they did.