Popular sentiment against AAP: Capt
Wednesday, 18/05/2016
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Chandigarh : Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the result of the Delhi municipal bye-elections was a reflection of poor performance of the AAP government in the city state.
“The bye-elections may have been held for 13 wards only, the results are certainly indicators of the popular sentiment in Delhi, which is clearly against the AAP. Of the 13 municipal wards, AAP lost in eight, thus reflecting the popular disillusionment with the Kejriwal government in Delhi within a year,” Amarinder said at a meeting of Congress leadership here.
He said that the AAP bubble has already burst in Punjab with the vertical division in the party. The former chief minister also accused the AAP of having a “subtle understanding” with the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.
Referring to Monday’s AAP protest against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder said: “They (Akalis and AAP) are only playing a friendly match as they were feeling threatened by the Congress. The Akali Dal is deliberately trying to promote AAP in the hope of dividing anti-incumbency vote, which will otherwise straightway go to the Congress.”
Amarinder Singh questioned how some of the AAP workers were allowed to reach the CM’s residence despite heavy deployment of police on the entry points.
“While the Akalis tried to project that they were preventing the AAP workers from coming to Chandigarh, actually the police personnel facilitated their entry to the state capital,” he said.
While questioning how the Akali government gave permission to the AAP workers to gather at Mohali, the Congress leader said in contrast, when the youth Congress workers were marching towards Chandigarh airport recently for getting it named after Bhagat Singh, they were brutally lathicharged with so many of them suffering injuries and fractures.
