Punjab, November 28: Suspended AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and seven other rebels may launch a new party in December, the Punjab legislator indicated Tuesday, 27 November.
Khaira, suspended AAP MP Dharamvira Gandhi and Simarjit Singh Bains, who leads AAP ally Lok Insaaf Party, said they will form a new political party to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls if they get the people’s mandate.
They will seek this mandate at a meeting in Patiala next month, a press release said.
They will seek a mandate then from the people to form a third alternative in Punjab to contest the Lok Sabha elections, Khaira said. The Insaaf Party headed by Bains has two MLAs in the assembly.
Khaira also lashed at Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, accusing him of denying justice in the sacrilege case and the police firing in Faridkot district in 2015.
Not even a constable has been punished for killing two people in the Behbal Kalan firing, he said.
He claimed the questioning by a special investigation team of Shiromani Akali Dal leaders Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal, whose government was in power in Punjab when the cases took place, was just eyewash.
Source The Quint
