Will scrap Amritsar’s BRTS project if voted to power: AAP

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, February 9

If voted to power, the Aam Aadmi Party’s first step in the state would be to scrap the BRTS (bus rapid transit system) project currently underway in Amritsar.

This was disclosed by AAP’s central observer, Amritsar, Ram Meher Bhati (Romi), today. He was in the city to promote AAP’s “Parivar Jodo” campaign.

“The BRTS project had to be scrapped in Delhi, but the Punjab government has failed to learn a lesson. Tons of public money could have been saved from going down the drain. The project is neither feasible nor safe for the commuters. No thought was spared for the public to enter or exit the dedicated BRTS corridors,” he said.

Saying that tackling corruption is their top priority, Bhati said they were suspecting gross misappropriation of funds in the Rs600 crore BRTS project. The other two major issues AAP would focus on were drug menace and unemployment, he said.

“We have learnt in Delhi that corruption needs to be curbed first and several other issues will automatically be redressed,” he said.

Refuting reports of former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu and his wife joining AAP, Bhati said there was never such a move.

Bhati, also member of national organisation building team of AAP, said the party’s CM nominee for Punjab would not be a ‘parachute candidate’, but someone from the state.

“For AAP’s CM candidate, no outsider will ever be considered. The CM candidate will be a Punjabi, but not necessarily a turbaned Sikh. The final decision would be taken by our political affairs committee,” he said.

He also informed the gathering about the party’s android mobile phone application launched to connect with the people.

On party’s campaign, he claimed at least 1 lakh families had got themselves registered with AAP in the last three days. The party was targeting to register 30 lakh families, he added.

No hand in provocative posters: Sanjay Singh

Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today distanced itself from certain ‘provocative’ posters celebrating the birth anniversary of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

The party claimed that the posters were being falsely circulated in their name as a part of ‘dangerous and dirty’ politics and a deep- rooted conspiracy.

“It is dirty and dangerous politics as well as a deep conspiracy to paint our party wrongly. We always release our posters as well as our ideology,” said Sanjay Singh, in-charge party affairs here today.

Punjab convener, Sucha Singh Chhotepur said AAP will fight such conspiracies politically, “We will not file a FIR against the persons who are circulating such damaging posters.” he said.

Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) chairman, Ashish Khaitan, national organisational secretary Durgesh Pathak and AAP legal head Himmat Singh Shergill accompanied him.