Chandigarh, December 28: The Congress suffered a major setback in the district of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, after senior leaders joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday.
These include Congress legislator Kaka Randeep Nabha’s brother and Congress leader Jasdeep Singh Nikku.
Party incharge and Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh, State President and MP Bhagwant Mann, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab Legislative Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema, deputy Leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Aman Arora, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Principal Budhram, Prof Baljinder Kaur, Jai Kishan Singh Rodi, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Jagtar Singh Jagga Hissowal, Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Master Baldev Singh, Rupinder Kaur Ruby, Amarjit Singh Sandoya, party general secretary Harchand Singh Barsat, secretary Gagandeep Singh Chadha among other leaders were present on the occasion.
Bhagwant Mann welcomed the leaders and said the party will get more strength with their joining them. They hoped that the leaders would shoulder the responsibility with vigour and play an important role in making Punjab happy again.
Jasdeep Singh Nikku said his family has decades of connection with the Congress party and his brother Kaka Randeep Nabha is an MLA from Amloh, but due to the failure of the current Punjab government, he said goodbye to the Congress party.
Nikku said he was impressed with what the Aam Aadmi Party was doing for the farmers of Punjab today, due to which he joined the party. He further said that whatever responsibility would be given by the party in the coming time, he would play it with full devotion.
Harmeet Singh Pathanamajra said the work being done by the Arvind Kejriwal government of Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party for farmers during the ongoing movement was praiseworthy and that is why he joined AAP.
He said that whatever duty would be given to him by the party, he would handle it with full vigour. Pathanamajra has been politically active in the Legislative Assembly of district Patiala from Sanaur for a long time. He also independently contested the Vidhan Sabha elections in 2017 and garnered over 12,000 votes. In 2019, he joined the Congress party.
On behalf of Bahujan Samaj Party, Gurpreet Singh Sidhu, who was a conveyor from Faridkot in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, also joined the Aam Aadmi Party. He said he was impressed by the policies of the Kejriwal government in Delhi and joined the party.
