Intensifying their fight against the Central leadership, dissident legislators of the AAP’s Punjab unit on Friday decided to hold volunteers’ conventions across the State to ‘strengthen’ the party.
First meeting
A decision to this effect was taken at the first meeting of the ad hoc political affairs committee here under the chairmanship of the sacked Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Sukhpal Singh Khaira. The committee was constituted by the dissidents on Tuesday.
“We do not want to carry on with the politics of confrontation... we want to save Punjab and strengthen the party,” Mr. Khaira said after the meeting.
A volunteers’ convention will be held in Faridkot on August 22, followed by similar events in Gurdaspur and Moga on August 25 and and September 2 respectively, he added.
Days after being sacked as the LoP last month, Mr. Khaira convened the first volunteers’ convention in Bathinda on August 2.
Resolutions passed at the convention declared the AAP’s Punjab unit ‘autonomous’ and dissolved the party’s organisational structure in the State even as the high command disapproved of the event.
He said a volunteers’ convention will also be held in the Garhshankar constituency.
Three-member panel
Mr. Khaira also constituted a three-member review committee under the chairmanship of MLA Kanwar Sandhu to look into the party’s performance in the 2017 Assembly polls. The review committee will submit its report in the next 45 days, he said.
Besides Mr. Khaira, other AAP MLAs who took part in the meeting included Mr. Sandhu, Nazar Singh Mansahia, Jagdev Singh Kamalu, Master Baldev Singh, Jagdev Singh Hissowal, Pirmal Singh and Jai Krishan Singh Rori.
