Big jolt for Badals, Bains and Congress as their top leaders join AAP

Ludhiana: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) got a shot in the arm on Monday when half a dozen prominent leaders of the Congress, Akali Dal (Badal) and Lok Insaf Party joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) along with their supporters at a simple ceremony.

Interacting with media here on Monday, AAP state president and MP Bhagwant Mann, Leader of Opposition (LoP) Harpal Singh Cheema, Punjab in-charge and MLA Jarnail Singh, Deputy Leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, informed that Lok Insaf Party (LIP) Secretary General Jaswant Singh Gajanmajra, senior Congress leader and former MLA Naresh Kataria, senior Congress leader from Pathankot Chaudhary Ramesh, BC Wing President of Akali Dal (Badal) Malwa Zone Shamindar Singh Khinda and prominent social activist and union general secretary Ramesh Meghwal (Baluana) and their supporters joined the party. They were offered a rousing welcome on the occasion by the top brass of the party.

Mann on the occasion said the recurring addition in the AAP family of was a clear and categorical indication that the top brass of the ruling Congress, SAD-BJP and other political parties were shell-shocked on how people, disenchanted by the anti-people policies of the successive governments, were reposing their abiding faith in the Arvind Kejriwal's pro-people model of development replicated in Delhi, for the third consecutive time.

Mann said that pain was discernible in the hearts of these leaders for Punjab and its people, who unconditionally and without any greed decided to hold hand of the Aam Aadmi Party. He called upon all Punjabis to extend their support to the Aam Aadmi Party to help stamp out the mafia rule and corrupt system in wreaking havoc in the state.

On this occasion Jarnail Singh and Harpal Singh Cheema said the people of Punjab and residing the world over had high expectations from the Aam Aadmi Party, as the Arvind Kejriwal government had fulfilled all the promises listed in the party’s election manifesto during the February 2020 elections, saying Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, who took an oath in the presence of Sri Gutka Sahib, had reneged on all the promises he had pedaled among the people ahead of 2017 Assembly elections .

Other conspicuous by their presence on the occasion included MLA Meet Hayer, Gary Waring, Suresh Goel, Navdeep Singh Sangha, Navjot Singh Jarg, Ravinder Bhalla and others prominent local leaders.