Gurdaspur rout: AAP’s Majha incharge resigns

Jupinderjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 16

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators will meet here tomorrow for introspection on the reasons for the party’s drubbing in the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha byelection, even as the head of its Majha division resigned today.

SS Channy, former MP and party’s incharge of Majha, took moral responsibility for the loss.

At tomorrow’s meeting convened by Leader of the Opposition Sukhpal Khaira, all party MLAs will give their assessment on the poll campaign and reasons for the loss.

Khaira told The Tribune, “The party needs to move on and this is reason the meeting has been called tomorrow itself.”

Party sources said the meeting can turn stormy as some MLAs did not agree with some of the decisions taken by the present management for the election strategy. Talwandi Sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur has already termed the loss a “failure” of the Punjab team.

The party has blamed the local units of Gurdaspur and Pathankot, and certain decision taken in the past by the Delhi leadership. Sources said the senior leaders, too, would have to share the blame.

Khaira said AAP was a movement to cleanse politics and it had to continue fighting without money or muscle power. “We will keep working hard and reinvent ourselves so that voters have an alternative.”