Expel Gandhi, Khalsa from AAP: Bhagwant Mann
Friday, 04/09/2015
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NABHA: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on Thursday demanded the expulsion of suspended leaders Dr Dharamvira Gandhi and Harinder Singh Khalsa from the party.
Mann was talking to the media after a party rally here. In a bid to corner Patiala MP Gandhi and Fatehgarh Sahib MP Khalsa, AAP organised rallies at Nabha and Amloh, where its leaders reiterated that the party would put the leaders of the ruling party whose names had figured in drug cases in jail.
Party leaders, including Sanjay Singh, Mann, party’s state convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur and Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh addressed the rally, where without naming Gandhi, they said that AAP would not tolerate indiscipline.
On the sidelines of the rally, Mann and Sanjay Singh defended the suspension of the two MPs. He said the Political Affairs Committee of the party had taken the decision after thorough deliberations and they supported it.
Mann and Sanjay Singh said Gandhi and Khalsa had organised a parallel rally at Baba Bakala, which showed that they were indulging in antiparty activities and spoiling its chances in the 2017 assembly polls. “Earlier, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan had tried to damage the party and now these two are committing the same mistake. AAP is above individuals and this huge gathering clearly shows that people are with it. If tomorrow I do any such thing, even I should be removed,” said the Sangrur MP, who was made the AAP leader in Parliament by removing Dr Gandhi.
While addressing the rally, the leaders focused on the drug issue, corruption, Badal family’s business interests, besides unemployment to strike a chord with the youth who were present in large numbers. They appealed to the people to throw the SADBJP government by branding it corrupt and a single familyoriented government.
Sanjay Singh said, “After the names of the Akali leaders in the Bhola drug scam, now the name of the state BJP president has figured in a narcotics case. It shows that the SAD-BJP are not only partners in government but also in illicit trade of heroin and smack, which has ruined Punjab. Let me announce that in 2017, AAP will sweep the polls and put all such leaders in jail.”
He said the SAD-BJP government is a “kharcha (spending) and parcha (case) government. “The common man has to pay them money to live a tensionfree life or they falsely implicate them in one case or the other.”
Mann took a jibe at deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal saying he had failed to make Punjab a California but had made it bankrupt instead.
‘PUNJAB IN DESPERATE NEED OF PEOPLE’S GOVT’ FATEHGARH SAHIB: AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Thursday said the country’s reins were in the hands of a few prominent families and there was need to set up a people’s government.
Addressing the Punjab Jodo rally at the Amloh grain market near here, Singh said the Badals were fooling people by announcing development projects. He said the state is under a debt of Rs 1 lakh crore while the Badals had earned crores through the land and sand mafias.
AAP’s Punjab incharge Sucha Singh Chhotepur said the Congress and SAD instead of uniting people had created a religious divide among them.
Mann said AAP’s main agenda is to set up people’s government in the country.
