SAD calls Manpreet ‘rolling stone’: PPP leader looking for opportunity
Friday, 13/02/2015
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RULING PARTY SAYS PPP SUPREMO CHANGING COLOUR LIKE CHAMELEON TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL AMBITION
Chandigarh : Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday dubbed the current activities on social media by the Peoples Party of Punjab (PPP) supremo Manpreet Singh Badal as a “well planned strategy to prepare ground for another political opportunity in Aam Admi Party (AAP)”. “PPP founder president and primary member of Congress party is a first grade political opportunist who changed colours like a chameleon to achieve his political ambitions by switching over from one outfit to another,” the senior SAD leaders Sikandar Singh Maluka and Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said here.
In a joint statement issued here, both the Cabinet Ministers said that Manpreet was nowhere in the picture during the Delhi elections campaign but victory of AAP had provoked his political opportunist character to create a ground for himself in this new party. “Understanding the fact that no one would believe him as he had repeatedly deceived the people, Manpreet has adopted the strategy of creating a ground for himself through his faction and other fake social media users,” they asserted. Declaring Manpreet as ‘biggest betrayer’, they said that Manpreet had ‘misled the public by using name of great martyr Bhagat Singh but later on he himself betrayed his own team’. They said that Manpreet had “deceived the people of Punjab under the garb of various issues which were rejected by the masses”.
Accusing Manpreet of “concealing fact that he had joined the Congress party”, Maluka and Dhillon said the ousted Akali Minister should introspect besides bringing truth before the public that he had got primary membership of Congress party before contesting the 2014 general Lok Sabha elections on Congress symbol from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency. They asked Manpreet how a politician could run his own outfit by having primary membership of another national party.
Questioning the credentials of PPP supremo, the senior Akali leaders said people were in favour of development and vision-oriented politics. They added that for the ruling SAD-BJP alliance, AAP was never a threat in Punjab but opportunistic tactics adopted by Manpreet were again giving people another reason to laugh at him.
