AAP’s Punjab vice-chief, three others join Cong
Monday, 12/12/2016
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NEW DELHI : In a boost to the Congress ahead of assembly elections, four Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including its state vice-president CM Lakhanpal, joined the party in Delhi on Sunday.
Welcoming AAP founding member Lakhanpal and three other leaders — PK Sharma, Iqbal Pannu and Barpur Singh —into the Congress fold, Amarinder said the AAP’s graph was coming down in Punjab.
He said the fight in the state polls is between the Congress and AAP, whose standing is on the decline. The AAP had to bring 50,000 people from other states for campaigning. “The SAD-BJP alliance is nowhere in reckoning in Punjab,” he claimed.
Targeting AAP national convener, Amarinder said: “His claim that if the AAP comes to power in Punjab, a Dalit will be made the deputy chief minister is fraudulent. There is no Sikh or Dalit minister in his Delhi government.”
“Kejriwal is trying to fool the people of Punjab through such misleading statements. The AAP had absolutely no standing in Punjab and had brought 50,000 people from other states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for campaigning,” the Punjab Congress chief claimed.
The newly inducted leaders expressed their unconditional support for Congress and alleged that AAP has “failed to meet people’s expectations in the state and is on decline”.
