Rejection of resignation: Mann, Arora still to hear from leadership

CHANDIGARH:A day after the Aam Aadmi Party’s state unit rejected their resignation from the posts of state president and co-president, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann and Sunam MLA Aman Arora said they had not heard anything from the party’s central leadership on the issue so far.

Mann, who was back home after being discharged from a Delhi hospital on Sunday, said he was neither contacted by anyone nor was there any communication in this regard. “If someone talks to me, I will apply my mind and meet the state unit leaders to find out on what grounds they have rejected my resignation,” he told HT.

Arora also said he had tendered his resignation and was not hankering after any post. “No one has talked to me. The question that if my resignation is rejected whether or not I am willing to take the post again is hypothetical,” he said.

Mann and Arora had quit their posts in March 2018 in protest against the “unconditional” apology tendered by AAP national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to Akali leader Bikram Majithia to settle a defamation case.

COUPLE CRUSHED TO DEATH

In the second accident, a couple was run over by a speeding truck at the Mammoon cantonment area in Pathankot.

The deceased has been identified as Prem Chand of Karoli village, a retired lineman of PSEB electricity department and his wife Sheela Devi. Prem was riding a scooter on which his wife

WOMAN-DAUGHTER KILLED IN TANDA

In another incident, a woman and her daughter lost their lives in a car accident at Tanda town on Pathankot-jalandhar national highway, while her husband and son are undergoing a treatment at a hospital in Hoshiarpur.

The deceased have been identified as Navita Sharma, a teacher, and her daughter Pranjhal Sharma, a resident of Salaria Nagar in Pathankot.

The police said in attempt to save a stray animal, the car driver lost his control and hit a

TRUCK RUNS OVER 2 IN BATHINDA, ONE DIES

A 28-year-old resident of Yamunanagar, Vinod Kumar, employed with a mobile tower company, was killed when a truck ran over men sleeping in a cot outside a dhaba on the Bathinda-dabwali road near Gurusar Sainewala about 5am on Sunday. Another man Rajesh Kumar was injured in the accident.

Police have arrested truck driver Gurtej Singh of Rampura Phul and booked him under section 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code.

ASI Lachhman Singh said that the men worked with a mobile tower firm and used to take rest outside the dhaba, whenever they happened to be in the area for work. “The truck driver was reversing the vehicle and failed to notice the cot that the men were resting on. The vehicle crushed the head of Kumar,” said the ASI