Chandigarh, April 25
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that the defection of seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the subsequent revelations have vindicated the Congress stand of last four years that the AAP had outsourced the governance to Delhi leadership.
Referring to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s own admission that Raghav Chadha had been allotted “the elite House No: 50”, which falls in the Chief Minister’s pool, Warring asked in what capacity had he been allotted that house. The AAP and the Chief Minister owe an answer to people of Punjab.
Referring to the AAP leadership’s charges against the defecting MPs that they had betrayed Punjab, the PCC president said that they had not betrayed Punjab as Punjab and the Punjabis had never any expectations from them. “People of Punjab were actually betrayed the day you nominated all those people, some outsiders and some big billionaires to Rajya Sabha”, he told the AAP, while remarking, “the AAP is just reaping the whirlwind; what you sow, so shall you reap”.
Warring said that it was in the interest of the people of Punjab that the MPs defected, as it only made the AAP reveal and admit so many things, which till now only the opposition parties had been saying. “Whether it was the parliament membership or the power that these people enjoyed, it was all at the expense of the people of Punjab, rather the Punjabi AAP workers who were ignored to reward and accommodate the outsiders”, he said, adding the Punjabis will remember it always.
Warring said he had all the sympathies for all those AAP workers and leaders from Punjab whose hardwork was ignored and overlooked to accommodate the businessmen, industrialists, billionaires and outsiders.
