Chandigarh BSP chief Gurcharan Singh Kamboj, office-bearers join Congress

Chandigarh, June 22

Alleging that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), under Mayawati, is acting as a B-team of the BJP, its city president Gurcharan Singh Kamboj and vice-president SA Khan, along with other office-bearers, including Jaspal Singh and Ajay Bagga, today joined the Congress.

They joined the party in the presence of former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and city Congress president Harmohinder Singh Lucky at the Congress Bhawan, Sector 35.

The BSP and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had jointly fought the MC elections last year. Of the 35 seats, the SAD had won one seat while the BSP had drawn a blank.

Kamboj, who is also senior vice-president of the All-India Kamboj Maha Sabha, accused the BSP of deviating from its ideology under alleged pressure from the BJP, a party with a “feudal and communal mindset.”

“The BSP under Mayawati is acting as a B-team of the BJP with a sole intention to cut into the Congress votes to help the BJP electorally,” he alleged.

Bansal, treasurer, All-India Congress Committee, slammed the BJP for its “divisive agenda, which is causing deep fissures in the social and political fabric of the country”.

“The only programme of the present BJP-led government is to help a section of the rich corporate at the cost of middle and lower economic classes,” he alleged.

Lucky alleged Chandigarh was fast losing its sheen due to the mismanagement of the BJP-led Municipal Corporation.