A biting political barb landed on Saturday, October 24, 2026, when AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal took to X to ridicule what he described as a partnership between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia — framing any joint effort to eliminate drugs from Punjab as nothing short of a global impossibility.

Kejriwal's post, written in Hindi, reads: 'Majithia aur Amit Shah ji dono behad kareeb hain, bilkul bhai jaise. Majithia ke saath gathbandhan karke ab Amit Shah ji Punjab se nasha door karenge. Ye duniya ka aathvaan ajooba hoga. Waah Modi ji waah. Kya planning ki hai.' Translated: 'Majithia and Amit Shah ji are extremely close, just like brothers. By forming an alliance with Majithia, Amit Shah ji will now rid Punjab of drugs. This will be the eighth wonder of the world. Bravo Modi ji, bravo. What planning.'

The Majithia–BJP history Kejriwal is invoking

Bikram Singh Majithia has been a lightning-rod figure in Punjab's drug politics for years. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and BJP governed Punjab together until their alliance unravelled in 2020 over disagreements on central farm legislation. During that shared tenure, opposition parties — AAP chief among them — repeatedly alleged that the SAD-BJP government had failed, and in some cases actively enabled, the state's drug crisis. Majithia has consistently denied those charges.

Kejriwal's sarcasm lands on a well-worn fault line: the accusation that parties now projecting themselves as Punjab's anti-drug saviours once presided over its worst years of narcotics proliferation. The 'eighth wonder of the world' jibe is calibrated to make that contradiction stick in the public imagination.

Punjab's drug problem as perpetual political battleground

Punjab has carried the weight of a drug epidemic — particularly opioid abuse among its youth — across successive state governments for over a decade. AAP swept to power in Punjab in 2022 with drug eradication as the centrepiece of its campaign, a mandate it has since struggled to fully deliver on, giving opposition parties their own opening to attack.

Amit Shah, as Union Home Minister, coordinates national narcotics enforcement through central agencies and inter-state mechanisms. Any new central push involving regional political partners in Punjab will inevitably be scrutinised through the prism of past alliances and accountability — precisely the prism Kejriwal is now holding up.

Combative timing, calculated audience

The post carries no policy proposal, no demand, no threat — it is pure political ridicule, stripped to its sharpest edge. By tagging the irony at Modi with a sardonic 'Waah Modi ji waah,' Kejriwal ensures the barb travels upward to the prime ministerial level, not just at Shah or Majithia. It is a reminder that for AAP, Punjab remains existential territory, and any perceived BJP-SAD rapprochement is a gift to be unwrapped loudly.

If a formal BJP-SAD coordination on narcotics enforcement takes shape, expect this post to be Exhibit A in AAP's counter-campaign — and Punjab's drug-ravaged families to remain the contested moral centre of that argument.