AAP – Congress parleys prove AAP is Cong B team – Harsimrat Badal

Chandigarh, March 20 -Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said the open parleys between the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) proved that AAP was a B team of the Congress and that the latter was trying to stitch up a disparate coalition as it did not have the courage to go to the people alone after reneging on each and every promise made to them. 

In a statement here, Mrs Harsimrat Badal said the Congress was not only holding talks with AAP for a formal alliance in Punjab for the forthcoming parliamentary elections but was also in an informal alliance with the so called Taksalis and Sukhpal Khaira’s rebel AAP faction. “All this is a sign of desperation. The Congress realises that the people will take it to task in the forthcoming elections. That is why it is holding talks with AAP and fronting the Taksalis to target the panthic vote bank. These tactics won’t succeed. The panth has seen through the Congress game plan and will never reward those who rolled tanks into Sri Darbar Sahab or killed thousands of Sikhs in Delhi”. 

Speaking about AAP, Mrs Badal said the party’s graph had gone down so drastically that it was now reduced to begging the Congress party to concede three seats or even just one seat of Sangrur for its State Convenor Bhagwant Mann. She said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal also seemed to have lost all his past bravado and was now begging the Congress for an alliance in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab. 

The Bathinda Mp said earlier too AAP had teamed up in Delhi and Punjab with the Congress party. She said Kejriwal had befooled the people by announcing that he would register a criminal case against then Delhi CM Sheila Dixit if AAP was returned to power. “Sheila Dixit roams scot free. Now Kejriwal is talking to Sheila Dixit for an alliance in Delhi. Similarly Kejriwal is also talking with chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh for an alliance in Punjab. This proves that AAP fought the 2017 assembly election jointly with the Congress and now wants to cement this relationship further”. 

Stating that it was for the people to decide between the resolute leadership of PM Narendra Modi and the SAD-BJP alliance on one side versus a corruption ridden non performing Congress government in Punjab accompanied by trouble makers and spoilsports like AAP. I am confident people will choose development and all round prosperity represented by the SAD – BJP alliance”, she added.