AAP founder-members join Congress

Tribune News Service 

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Chandigarh, April 8 

Several functionaries of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), including more than half a dozen founder-members of the Chandigarh unit, joined the Congress here today 

The joining ceremony was held at the Congress Bhawan in Sector 35 in the presence of former Union Minister and Lok Sabha candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal and the city Congress president Pradeep Chhabra. 

Among the new members, who joined the Congress, include NS Dhaliwal, general secretary, AAP Chandigarh, and its campaign committee member, Kalana Dass, joint secretary Rosyleen Kaur, executive member and member of the national social media team, Gurdeep Singh Saini, executive member, Ankit, youth president, (South), Aisha Parveen, president women cell, Ward No. 22 and Neeetu Pun, secretary, women cell, Ward No. 22.

While lashing out at the BJP for vitiating the atmosphere with its divisive brand of politics Bansal said Congress president Rahul Gandhi on the other hand with his vision spelled out in the form of a people-friendly manifesto was trying to stitch Indian society back to its harmonious self.

The anarchy prevailing in the country and the anti-people policies and programmes of the BJP government, he said were reflecting on Chandigarh as well where the local Saffron party leadership had completely failed the people, who brought them to power.  

Speaking on the occasion, NS Dhaliwal said, “We joined the Anna Hazare movement and later, the AAP with zeal to transform society, but of late we were feeling stifled as even founding members of the party were not being heard by the local leadership.” 

“The new wave of changes, both in thought and actions, in the Congress has inspired us to join the party,” he added. Later, Bansal addressed a rally at Dadu Majra.