A day before a volunteers’ convention being organised by Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Harpal Singh Cheema alleged on Wednesday that the event was being ‘sponsored’ by the SAD-BJP combine and the RSS.
Mr. Khaira, who was removed from the post of the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, and MLAs who are supporting him are organising the volunteers’ convention at Bathinda on Thursday.
The event is being seen as a show of strength by Mr. Khaira.
“The convention to be held at Bathinda on Thursday is as an event sponsored by SAD-BJP-RSS and Bains brothers and has nothing to do the with Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and other leaders,” Mr. Cheema, the newly appointed Leader of the Opposition, said in a statement here.
He said the use of photos and names of national leaders, MPs and MLAs on the posters, meant for the convention, was to ‘confuse’ AAP workers.
‘Anti-Dalit’
Terming the convention an ‘anti-Dalit’ event, the AAP leader said: “The State as well as (the) national leadership would have welcomed the convention if it was scheduled to raise the voice of Dalits, farmers, unemployed and against mafias of every kind.”
Accusing the Bains brothers-led Lok Insaaf Party of trying to break the AAP, the Dirba MLA claimed that a few leaders of the AAP were trying to ‘kill’ their own party by allegedly getting influenced by Simarjeet and Balwinder Singh Bains.
