Pun­jabi lan­guage en­thu­si­asts of the Pun­jabi Bhasha Pasar Bhaichara make fer­vent ap­peals to the elec­torate to vote for only those can­di­dates who promise not only to re­spect mother-tongue Pun­jabi but also make se­ri­ous ef­forts to get the lan­guage its due in Pun­jab.

The Pun­jabi Bhasha Pasar Bhaichara has been work­ing over­time since the last few weeks by writ­ing to all con­test­ing can­di­dates to show their re­spect for Pun­jabi and their com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing that the lan­guage would get its due in Pun­jab as well as in Cen­tral gov­ern­ment in­sti­tu­tions.

Mahin­der Singh Sekhon, the as­sis­tant co­or­di­na­tor of the group in­formed me­dia that they sent let­ters to many po­lit­i­cal par­ties and ex­cept Lud­hi­ana can­di­date Simar­jeet Singh Bains, no one has both­ered to re­ply to them and de­clared his com­mit­ment to the use and growth of the lan­guage.

He added that since the last 71 years, the Pun­jabi lan­guage is fac­ing geno­ci­dal poli­cies of the state. He lamented that Pun­jabi does not even get the sta­tus which other lan­guages are pro­vided in their par­ent states.

Ac­tivists of the body have been putting up posters and bill­boards urg­ing peo­ple to vote for those can­di­dates who re­spect Pun­jabi.