AAP bubble will burst sooner than later: Captain

Wednesday, 13/01/2016

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Gurdaspur : Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bubble will burst sooner than later in the state.

Amarinder said the AAP was only a hype with virtually nothing on ground except “a bunch of rejected and worn out leaders” from other parties.

“The AAP does not have any policy, programme or leader and they cannot go on to win elections by merely abusing everybody,” he said.

Stating that AAP or the SAD-BJP combine were no challenge to Congress, Amarinder said he was convinced that his party will storm to power with a record majority in 2017 assembly elections.

The former Punjab chief minister was here to pay homage to two martyrs in Pathankot terror attack Captain Fateh Singh in Jhanda Gujaran and Subedar Kulwant Singh in Chak Sahrif village.

Amarinder, also the deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, said he did not expect much to come out from the inquiry commission constituted by Pakistan to probe the Pathankot terror attack since officials from Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which controls Jaish-e-Mohammed, the militant outfit suspected of the strike, were part of the joint investigative team.

However, he added that there was no way out for the two countries other than dialogue for permanent peace on the border.

The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committe president was accompanied by campaign committee chairperson Ambika Soni, general secretary in-charge Shakeel Ahmad, secretary in-charge Harish Chaudhary, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi, former PCC president Partap Singh Bajwa among others.

In his tributes to the martyred soldiers, he said Gurdaspur area had a great tradition and history of valour and gallantry as so many soldiers had laid down their lives in earlier wars also.

He also assured support to the bereaved families of the two soldiers.
 
Bajwa plays host to Amarinder at lunch
Gurdaspur : Once his bete noire, former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday played host to the party’s present state president, Amarinder Singh and other senior leaders at his house in Qadian in the district.

Bajwa hosted lunch for Amarinder and other party leaders who had gone to Gurdaspur to pay homage to two soldiers who had laid down their lives fighting terrorists during the recent Pathankot airbase attack.

“Warmth and friendliness” were visible between both the state Congress leaders who were once engaged in a bitter war of words after Amarinder had “gunned for” Bajwa in an attempt to oust him from the post of PPCC chief.

Amarinder, accompanied by campaign committee chairperson Ambika Soni, general secretary (in-charge) Shakeel Ahmad, secretary (in-charge) Harish Chaudhary, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi, Bajwa and other senior leaders, had gone to pay homage to two martyrs Honorary Captain Fateh Singh in Jhanda Gujaran and Subedar Kulwant Singh in Chak Sahrif village in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday.

Both the villages -- Jhanda Gujaran and Chak Sahrif -- fall within the Qadian Assembly constituency which is currently represented by Bajwa’s wife Charanjit Kaur Bajwa.

“He (Amarinder) is like brother to me and also the state party president. We are hardcore Congressmen,” said Bajwa when asked about the lunch at his house.

“For Amarinder, it is like homecoming,” he said, adding that the two leaders had lunch or dinner together for the first time in three years.