Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday announced advocate Himmat Singh Shergill’s name as its candidate from Majitha against the state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia. Shergill was earlier announced as party’s candidate from SAS Nagar (or Mohali).
AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made the announcement at a party’s massive rally, Majha Fateh Rally, at Majitha.
AAP has all along been targeting Majithia over his alleged involvement in drug case while dubbing him as “drug lord”. Majithia has, in turn, filed defamation case against several AAP leaders, including Kejriwal.
Challenging Majithia on his home turf, Kejriwal proposed the name of party’s legal Cell head Shergill asking them if the latter would be the right choice of the party to take on Punjab Revenue Minister — that received a thunderous applause cheers giving a positive nod to Kejriwal’s proposal.
When Kejriwal posed the same query to Shergill, who was standing close by, Shergill accepted the “challenge” saying that he was more than eager to accept it “for the sake of Punjab and to take the state out of the clutches of Badals and Majithia”.
Shergill said that ever since he has joined the party, he was ready to accept any duty given by the party to save Punjab and its people
from the mafia’s rule of Badals and Majithia.
Kejriwal maintained that it was extremely important to root out Capt Amarinder, Badals and Majithia from Punjab, if people here wanted to give Punjab a chance of hope, progress and development.
He said that the whole Punjab knew that Capt Amarinder, Badals and Majithia are fighting 2017 assembly polls together as part of grand alliance against AAP. “Otherwise, why Majithia has never challenged his uncle Capt Amarinder to contest against him from Majithia. Similarly, why uncle Amarinder has never challenged Majithia or Badals to contest against him from Patiala,” Kejriwal said adding that even Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal have never challenged Amarinder to contest from their constituencies of lambi and Jalalabad respectively.
“But all of them will always challenge me to contest against them. This shows Badals and Capt Amarinder are having secret political understanding to protect eachothers’ interests and both Akalis and Congress are jointly contesting against AAP,” he said.