Chandigarh, June 14 -- Union home minister Amit Shah made it categorically clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest the 2027 Punjab assembly elections on its own, ruling out any pre-poll alliance with another political party.

Addressing Punjab BJP leaders during a nearly three-hour meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Friday evening in the presence of the party's national chief Nitin Nabin, Shah is learnt to have directed the state leadership to prepare for an independent electoral battle with the objective of forming a government in the state.

"We can make our own chief minister if we contest alone. Get ready and convey this message to grassroots workers that the BJP will leave no stone unturned to form its...