AAP top brass minting money: Sukhbir

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 26

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said here today that Sucha Singh Chhotepur was not the only Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader who was pocketing money in the run-up to the Assembly election.

Talking to mediapersons, he alleged, “The AAP leaders, including Sanjay Singh, are giving the ticket only to those people who make payments. Most of their candidates have a criminal background.”

Sukhbir was in the city to attend a traders’ meet and lay the foundation stone of a water supply project.

Terming Chhotepur as a discard, he said the SAD did not accept rejected people. He claimed that AAP leaders had made a secret pact with Khalistani groups.

“We have proof that the party has made a commitment to radical groups that it will give them control of the SGPC on coming to power. Jarnail Singh, AAP co-incharge, Punjab affairs, met leaders of such groups during his recent visit to England,” the Deputy CM said.

He quipped that AAP was a ‘solid waste management company’. “It is a frustrated party that has no issues to work upon. After the 2017 election, AAP will be given the charge of managing Ludhiana’s solid waste,” said Sukhbir. He said the state government was ready to probe any written complaint about corruption by AAP leaders.

He said the setting up of the Cycle Valley would give a fillip to the small scale and ancillary industry of Ludhiana.

Party a house of cards, says Cheema

Ropar: The Aam Aadmi Party is a house of cards that will collapse soon as its leaders have starting exposing each other, SAD spokesman and Punjab Education Minister Daljeet Singh Cheema said here today.

Cheema, who was here to convene a training camp for Akali workers, said the SAD had been trying to convince the people that Arvind Kejriwal and his men were here to loot the state. "Chhotepur's allegations against AAP have vindicated our stand," he said.