Several AAP, PEP leaders join Punjab Congress
TNN Bureau. Updated: 4/19/2019 7:21:37 PM
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Chandigarh, Apr 19 (UNI) Several leaders and workers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its Sukhpal Singh Khaira led splinter group of Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP) in Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, joined Punjab Congress in the presence of chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh here on Friday.
Congress party sources said that their joining has given a big boost to the Congress in Sangrur parliamentary constituency, with the party candidate from the seat, Kewal Singh Dhillon, instrumental among these leaders leaving AAP and PEP to throw their weight behind the Congress. Kewal Dhillon’s son and Congress leader Karan Dhillon was also present on the occasion of their joining.
Capt Singh said the mass induction into the Congress showed across-the-board disillusionment of the people of Punjab with the various opposition parties, which were completely bereft of any constructive agenda or programme for the state’s development to offer.
Welcoming the newcomers into the party fold, Capt Amarinder said all like-minded individuals, who believed in the welfare of the nation and were opposed to the negative policies of other parties, were making a beeline for the Congress, which was the only party at the national and state level to deliver on its promises.
Those who joined the Congress included PEP Barnala district President Kala Dhillon, PEP State executive member Surat Bajwa, AAP Malwa Zone general secretary Harvinder Sekhon, Aggarwal Sabha Sunam president and AAP leader Prem Gupta, along with Brick Kiln Association general secretary Bharat Bhushan Garg, vice president Rajiv Makhan, cashier Shubash Garg and its Lehra block president Sandeep Garg.