21 AAP leaders, workers join Punjab Congress

Twenty-one Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers from Sangrur joined the Congress Party in the presence of Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday. Along with 21 AAP members, 34 SGPC members and SAD supporters also joined Congress. 

The Punjab Congress had yesterday suffered a major setback when its firebrand leader and former MLA from Bholath, Sukhpal Khaira, joined the AAP in the presence of its senior leaders Sanjay Singh, in-charge of Punjab affairs and MP Bhagwant Mann. 

Khaira, who had been Congress party's spokesperson and the most vocal face of the party submitted his resignation from the primary membership of the party to Rahul Gandhi. Sanjay Singh formally inducted Khaira and applauded him for "taking on Badals single-handedly by exposing their misdeeds".

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"I was upset with Rahul Gandhi who always promised to bring honest and young people and qualitative change in the polity of India. Unfortunately, he compromised on his own principles and ideology by forming new Punjab Congress team including Amarinder Singh, Ambika Soni and Lal Singh just to win polls in Punjab," Khaira said.