NRI body hits out at Amarinder for calling them 'outsiders'

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Hitting-out at Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh for terming them "outsiders", founders of a pro-AAP NRI body on Monday said they were not bothered about the rival leader's statement and were ready to go to jail for their party.

The body 'Chalo Punjab' also opposed Amarinder's complaint to the Election Commission against them for campaigning for AAP in the poll-bound state.

"We are not bothered what Amarinder says, even if we are jailed for supporting AAP," founders Joban Randhawa, Surinder Mavi and Jaskirat Mann said here.

They claimed they had the constitutional right to campaign in the state.

AAP's Toronto youth convener Randhawa claimed more than 35,000 NRIs would be campaigning in Punjab to liberate the it from the "clutches of Congress and Badals".

The second batch of NRIs from UK would be arriving at Amritsar on January 24 and they would take out a road show the same day, Randhawa said.

"Amarinder is frustrated as NRIs have refused to support the Congress. He had visited USA and Canada to garner support but was not allowed enter the latter's cities, Toronto and Vancouver," he said.  

Daily Pioneer
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