Congress rushes in defence of sidelined state AAP convener
Friday, 26/08/2016
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Chandigarh : With reports indicating that differences have cropped up within the AAP in poll-bound Punjab and convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur has been marginalised, the Congress jumped in his defence on Thursday, saying that ‘outsider’ AAP leaders were trying to fix a ‘son of the soil’.
Condemning the ‘dirty tricks resorted to by Aam Aadmi Party leaders from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana against the son of the soil Sucha Singh Chhotepur, who nourished and nurtured the party right from the day of its conception in Punjab’, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh said that AAP leaders from outside the state have taken control of the party and were trying to fix the state leadership.
The internal controversy in the AAP started after the emergence of a video clip showing an AAP worker giving money to Chhotepur. In the first two lists of 32 candidates released by the AAP, Chhotepur’s name was not cleared for any assembly seat. He was also not present at both press conferences where the lists were announced by AAP leaders, especially of Sanjay Singh, who is in charge of the party’s affairs in Punjab.
Party sources said that Chhotepur had expressed objections to a few names in both lists but AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal did not give any time to him to discuss the issue.
