Amritsar, January 14
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal’s Samyukt Samaj Morcha of attempting to defect AAP leaders here on Friday.
AAP MLA Meet Hayer alleged that the Samyukt Samaj Morcha had contacted several leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party and been luring them to contest elections as their candidates and bear all their election expenses. However, it raises question over the funding source of the Samyukt Samaj Morcha?
Naming AAP leader Jaspreet Singh from the Amritsar South counsituancy, Hayer claimed that the Samyukt Samaj Morcha had approached him to contest the election and offered to bear all the election expenses. Hayer said the BJP was making many other clandestine alliances apart from the direct alliance of Capt Amarinder Singh and Dhindsa to prevent the Aam Aadmi Party from forming a government in Punjab. “The BJP is funding its aligned leaders and parties and is planning to make them contest elections to divide AAP’s vote share,” he added. Hayer said all the political parties seemed upset over the disturbing fact that people of Punjab had now decided to form an Aam Aadmi Party government in the state. Taking it into consideration, all the parties have secretly united to impede the AAP.
Hargobinder Singh Gill, senior AAP leader, said, “After seeing the change in Delhi, people of Punjab too want a revolutionary change and every person of Punjab has made up its mind to form the Aam Aadmi Party government in the state.
People are fed up with the loot and corruption of previous governments. The people of Punjab have decided to form an Aam Aadmi Party government to stop the loot, corruption and mafia spread in the governance.”
Lok Sabha in-charge Iqbal Singh Bhullar, Prabhbir Brar and Jaspreet Singh were also present on the occasion.
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