YAD, BSP leaders join Cong
Friday, 13/01/2012
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Parminderpal Singh Khalsa, senior vice president Youth Akali Dal, and Surinderpal Singh Goldy, vice president Youth Akali Dal, on Thursday joined the Congress in the presence of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president.
Capt Amarinder Singh. They were welcomed into the party by Capt Amarinder in the presence of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee president Paramjit Singh Sarna.
Rajwinder Singh Dhanaula, President Youth Organisation of India, and in-charge of the student wing of the Bahujan Samaj Party, also joined the Congress along with hundreds of their supporters. He was inducted
into the party by the PPCC president.Talking to reporters, Khalsa and Goldy said, “The Akali Dal had lost its direction and credibility. Most of the Akali leaders and workers who had generational association with the party were feeling alienated and disillusioned over the treatment meted out to them by the party, which is being held captive by a select few”.
Dhanaula said that he had left the BSP to join the Congress as he got to know that the BSP was hand-in-glove with the Akali Dal. He said that the BSP was only exploiting the sentiments of the Dalits and the downtrodden while having reached a secret understanding with the Akalis and the BJP.
