Ex-AAP leader joins Cong

GS Paul

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 14

Noted eye surgeon and former AAP leader Dr Daljit Singh joined the Congress here today in the presence of PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh.

Dr Singh had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections against Amarinder and BJP’s Arun Jaitley from Amritsar on the AAP ticket. He was expelled in 2015 for alleged anti-party activities.

He said today, “Arvind Kejriwal is a threat to national security. He is an anarchist who should be refrained from grabbing power and disturbing peace. His success would be our failure.”

Dr Singh, who had accused senior AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak of trying to ruin the party, said he was disillusioned by the way the party was being run.

Amarinder said Kejriwal had been running a New Delhi-based NGO that was funded by the Ford Foundation which, in turn, received funds from US spy agency CIA.

On when Navjot Singh Sidhu will join the Congress, Amarinder said, “Talks between him and AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi are in progress. I can assure you that Sidhu will contest from Amritsar East on the party ticket.”