Not naming CM face proved costly: Khaira

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 12

Aam Aadmi Party leader Sukhpal Khaira, who has won the Bholath seat, today posted a video of himself on Facebook saying that the delay in projecting the CM candidate by AAP might be a major cause for the party’s dismal performance.

“While the Congress projected Capt Amarinder Singh as its CM candidate well in time, AAP remained double-minded on this issue. This created a doubt in the mind of the voters that someone from outside Punjab might get the chair,” he was seen as saying.

Khaira said the party would hold a meet and analyse the reasons behind its poor performance. He asked volunteers and supporters as well as NRI sympathisers not to get demoralised.

Terming that the party would now prepare for a comeback in the 2019 Parliamentary elections, Khaira said it was now time for AAP to set a target for a win in 2019.

Capt not worthy of being CM: Khaira 

At a press conference on Sunday, Khaira said he would urge the Congress high command not to choose a “corrupt” man as the CM. “We accept the verdict and congratulate the Congress. But I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that Aamrinder shouldn’t be the Chief Minister since he has many cases of corruption against him,” he said.