The Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday constituted its State core committee that will unanimously decide the future course of the party in the State.
“It is the long pending demand of the State leadership to form a core committee that take the decision on its own. Due to the prior engagements of central leadership and state in-charge Manish Sisodia, it took some time to form the committee,” said AAP’ Punjab unit co-president Aman Arora.
Arora, announcing the names of committee members, said that AAP’s Punjab unit president Bhagwant Mann, the leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Faridkot MP Prof Sadhu Singh, MlA Kanwar Sandhu, Deputy leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, MlA Kultar Singh Sandhwan, MlA Prof Baljinder Kaur, Gulshan Chhabra, Dr Inderbir Singh Nijjer, Dr Ravjot Singh, Dr Balbir Singh, Manjinder Singh Sidhu and Aman Arora will the permanent members.
Harjot Singh Bains, Garry Birring, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Paramjeet Singh Sachdeva, Anil Thakur, Gurdit Singh Sekhon and Dalbir Singh Dhillon will be the ex-officio members of the committee, he added.
Arora said that the committee will now be independent to take decisions regarding the state affairs in the future. “It will accelerate the process of widening the base of party in the state,” he said.
He added that a report regarding Shahkot by-poll will be prepared within a week after consulting the volunteers and zone presidents of the state. The party has also assigned responsibility of structure building to Dr Balbir Singh relieving Aman Arora of the responsibility.Arora had requested the party high command to relinquish the responsibility sighting time constraints and his commitment towards the people of his constituency.