As Kejriwal meets party’s Punjab MLAs in Delhi, Congress leaders predict defections and a mid-term poll

“Calling a gathering truthful soon shows that the enactment volition interruption soon. There volition beryllium mid-term polls successful Punjab. When a enactment loses, determination is simply a treatment wrong the state, and MLAs of different states are not called. They are disquieted that what happened successful Delhi whitethorn beryllium repeated successful Punjab,” helium said. “Many are successful interaction with Congress implicit the past respective days,” helium added.

Randhawa said the gathering should person taken spot successful Punjab. “Only 1 idiosyncratic (Kejriwal) would person needed to spell travel here. The chopper and the chartered level of Punjab would person been utilized to get him here. The radical of Punjab would besides person been capable to spot him,” helium said.

Randhawa besides said helium raised the contented of coercion and repeated grenade attacks successful Punjab successful Parliament, and pointed retired what helium called the apathy of the authorities authorities — including Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. “The CM of Punjab did not amusement courageousness against the panic acts of Khalistanis. Pakistan is sending successful drones with grenades and drugs heavy wrong Punjab. Why is the BSF, which has a mandate to enactment up to 50 km from the planetary border, not doing anything? I person doubly written to the Home Minister for an NIA probe into the grenade blasts connected constabulary establishments adjacent to the Indo-Pak borderline but thing has been done,“ helium said.

Meanwhile, elder Congress person Partap Singh Bajwa besides claimed that implicit 30 AAP MLAs are successful interaction with his party, predicting imaginable defections and a imaginable mid-term canvass successful Punjab. Bajwa, who is besides the Leader of Opposition, said Kejriwal mightiness contention from Ludhiana to regenerate Bhagwant Mann, indicating the interior powerfulness struggles wrong AAP.

Congress MP Gurjit Singh Aujla said, “It is his party, helium should clasp a meeting, but if helium is holding a gathering instantly aft the decision past it has a antithetic meaning. He has mislaid Delhi, truthful helium should telephone Delhi leaders and brainstorm, but Punjab MLAs person been called. Both his models, Punjab and Delhi, person failed”.

Gurjit Singh Aujla, who represents Amritsar successful Lok Sabha, said Arvind Kejriwal wants to go the main curate oregon wants to bring astir immoderate changes successful the enactment of his party’s Punjab unit. “The radical of Punjab are fed up with him, nary substance however galore meetings helium holds, it volition not marque immoderate difference,” helium said, adding that 24-30 AAP MLAs were successful interaction with the Congress.

Punjab volition not tolerate a CM from extracurricular the state, and the AAP has already appointed galore outsiders successful the state, helium said.

Speaking to media persons successful New Delhi, Congress MP from Chandigarh Manish Tewari said it’s a “tragedy” that “Delhi has ne'er understood Punjab”. “Unfortunately, Delhi volition ne'er recognize Punjab due to the fact that the authorities has a antithetic ethos, a antithetic culture, a antithetic syncretism, and it ticks to a antithetic beat,” helium added.

He besides pointed retired that Punjab, arsenic a borderline state, needs to beryllium handled precise cautiously and the Centre needs to person a ‘border policy’ for specified states. “Any governmental instability successful Punjab volition person precise terrible nationalist repercussions. Punjab is simply a borderline state. Our occidental neighbour is ever hyperactive successful trying to subvert and destruct the bid of Punjab. Therefore, determination are definite borderline states which request to beryllium handled precise carefully. The concern successful the Northeast, Manipur, is acold from stabilising and truthful the Government of India should truly ore connected having a borderline argumentation for the borderline states,” Tewari said.