Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday strongly condemned Capt Amarinder Singh led Congress government in Punjab for “forcibly” imposing the rejected leaders on the people of the state just the way SAD-BJP government did during its previous tenures.
By asking the rejected Congress leaders, who have lost in the Punjab assembly polls, to distribute cheques in various constituencies, Capt Amarinder was trying to legitimize the practice which was common during the SAD-BJP regime and against the spirit of democracy, said AAP’s Punjab unit president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann. Mann said, while during the Badals’ regime, these rejected political leaders were dubbed as halqa in-charge, “Amarinder has rechristened them as social observers”.
“Before forming the government early this year, Capt Amarinder used to criticize the Badals for unleashing the unelected leaders on the people of Punjab which he used to term as absolutely unconstitutional,” pointed Mann.