AAP: Rebellion started in AAP, meeting of old leaders | Ludhiana News – Times of India

Jalandhar: After two days of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, Punjab Raghav Chadha, the co-in-charge of affairs, faced opposition from party workers when he came here to include leaders of other parties and witnessed a scuffle between old party workers and supporters of a new entrant, angry old party leaders. And the workers held a meeting here on Sunday. Rebel voices arose from the meeting, in which about 20 state, district and local officials participated.
Your State Spokesperson Dr. Shiv Dayal Malik and Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, along with former IG of Punjab Police and prominent wrestler Kartar Singh, who was the party’s candidate from Tarn Taran Organized a meeting of old party workers of four urban areas in the 2017 assembly elections. He left no stone unturned in criticizing the party leadership over the selection of candidates.
What was common in the meeting was that the party had already drifted away from its principles and people from outside Punjab had a strong hold on it in the state and Punjabis had little stake in the party’s decisions. The tag was labeled “outside” openly by the speakers. “Those who can’t even speak Punjabi are controlling matters here, while they can’t even understand the state,” said a speaker.
The Rebels kept the meeting open as Dr. Mali live-streamed the meeting on his Facebook.
As several speakers addressed the event held at the old party office in Chhota Barandari, allegations of “tickets for money” were also raised.
As some of the speakers suggested that the party workers who had joined AAP and worked hard for your ideas and ideals should now join hands. United Samaj Morcha When put together by a section of agricultural groups, the gardeners revealed that they had already been in contact with farm leaders. Some of the speakers said that AAP’s rebel activists should look to those builders who have already organized themselves in the rural areas and now those who want change in urban areas should also join them.
A speaker said, “AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal had said he would not ‘ruin other parties’, but now he should explain why he has done the same thing.”
Speakers said that while old party leaders and workers, who had good reputation and credibility, were removed and new ones were brought in and given tickets. Sheetal Angural was given ticket Jalandhar Paschim, a day after joining the party, and Dinesh Dhal were given tickets from Jalandhar North, two days after being inducted into the party. The speakers asked the party leadership to explain what criteria were used for his candidature.
5 out of 9 are new in jalandhar
Of the nine AAP candidates in Jalandhar district, five are completely new. In all cases, he was either declared “constituency in-charge”? When they joined the party or were directly declared candidates of the party. Newcomers have been fielded from three urban seats of Jalandhar. Jalandhar West candidate Sheetal Angural was declared the party’s candidate within a day of switching sides from BJP, Jalandhar North’s Dinesh Dhal was declared the party’s candidate within two days of joining, while Jalandhar Central’s Raman Arora Recently joined. Former DCP of Jalandhar Balkar Singh has been fielded from Kartarpur seat. He was declared in-charge of the constituency when he joined the party after retirement a few months back. Nakodar’s candidate Inderjit Kaur was also fielded after her induction. The candidates from the remaining four constituencies – Shahkot, Phillaur, Adampur and Jalandhar Cantt – have been with the party for a long time.

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