Aam Adami Party may tie up with PPP for LS poll
Tuesday, 24/12/2013
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Chandigarh : The Aam Adami Party (APP) is probing the possibility of an alliance with the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP). Sources said senior leaders of the AAP had been gathering feedback about the standing of the PPP in the state and the acceptability of its leaders among people.
Though formally nothing has been decided yet, sources said senior leaders of the APP recently held informal talks with top PPP leaders.
PPP president Manpreet Singh Badal said there had been no formal meetings between leaders both the parties to form an alliance or make any political arrangement in the state. He said he was busy making preparations to hold political conferences at the Shaheedi Jor Mela in Fatehgarh Sahib and the Maghi Mela in Muktsar.
Manpreet, however, said there were many similarities between the political ideology of the APP and the PPP. “Our party was the first to raise the banner of protest against the ‘lal bati’ culture. We have been constantly speaking against the VIP treatment to politicians,” he said. Earlier before the Vidhan Sabha elections in the state, there was also talk of a tie-up between the two parties.
There are reports that to launch a wider political movement across the country in view the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the APP would start interacting with like-minded political groups, fighting for a change in the existing political system, from December 25.
