Disgruntled AAP leaders protest at Bhagwant Mann's house

Sangrur, January 2

Disgruntled AAP leaders on Sunday organised a demonstration in front of the local residence of Punjab AAP president and Sangrur Member Parliament (MP) Bhagwant Mann. Some AAP leaders want Mann to contest the Assembly elections from Sangrur instead of official candidate Narinder Kaur Bharaj. They announced that they would not support the party candidate if Mann did not contest from here.

“AAP leaders from various villages, Sangrur and Bhawanigarh cities reached the local residence of Mann and sat on protest there to convince Mann to contest from Sangrur. All have decided that they would only support Mann as their candidate from the constituency and they would neither support Bharaj nor any other nominee,” said Inderpal Singh Khalsa, founder-member of the AAP from Sangrur.

Some other leaders alleged that AAP’s decision to give the ticket to Bharaj, who has also been working hard for past many years, from Sangrur had caused a division in the party. Another AAP leader Dinesh Bansal, who had contested last elections from Sangrur on an AAP ticket, said: “Either Mann should contest or a senior leader should get the ticket.” Mann couldn’t be contact despite repeated attempts. AAP district president Gurmale Singh said they had informed their senior leaders. — TNS