Confident AAP not keen to project CM face in Punjab
Tuesday, 02/08/2016
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NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is confident of sweeping the Punjab assembly elections but in no hurry to decide its chief ministerial candidate, a party leader in charge of the state said.
Durgesh Pathak also said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was ready for any decision by a parliamentary committee on its Sangrur MP, Bhagwant Mann, who is accused of breaching Parliament’s security, a charge Mann has denied. Pathak, who has played a key role in building the party in Punjab, said he expected the AAP to win 95 to 105 of the 117 seats in the elections due early next year.
“Any party will say it is winning,” said Pathak (27) on Monday. “But I invite you to visit any place in Punjab and ask any 10 people who they will vote for. I bet seven will say the AAP.” Amid speculation that former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu could be the AAP’s CM candidate in Punjab, Pathak said: “We have not even thought about it. If this panel wants to throw Mann out of the Lok Sabha, so be it, but none of us joined the AAP for any post.”
