Harpreet Kaur Babla should resign on moral grounds: Congress

Chandigarh, January 6

“Harpreet Kaur Babla’s act of defecting from the Congress after winning the Municipal Corporation (MC) elections as a Congress candidate is clearly an act of betrayal, not only with the party but with the people of the ward who voted for her as the Congress candidate.”

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In a statement issued here today, Rajesh Sharma, spokesperson for the city unit of the Congress, said Davinder Singh Babla, who had been vocal against the BJP, was now all praise for the saffron party.

After joining the BJP, Babla claimed that nobody from the Congress came to support them in their ward. However, Pawan Kumar Bansal, former union minister and AICC treasurer, had joined them even in the door-to-door campaigning. Randeep Singh Surjewala, national spokesperson for the AICC, Rajinder Rana, Sujanpur MLA, Amarjeet Singh Jeeti, Mohali Mayor, and others also held rallies in their support in the ward, said Sharma.

Harpreet should resign from the post of councillor on moral grounds and thereafter she may contest independently or on the BJP ticket, maintained Sharma.

In the MC elections, though the Congress got only eight seats, it had got the maximum vote share, which shows that the mandate of people is in favour of the Congress and people voted against the BJP due to its misrule, alleged Sharma, adding that though AAP had won 14 seats, it got only 27 per cent vote share. —TNS