AAP DEMANDS PROBE BY HIGH COURT JUDGE

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of high court into the train tragedy that killed 61 people and left many others injured in Amritsar last week.

The demand was made by AAP MP Bhagwant Mann after a meeting of the 22-member core committee of the party here. “There should be no politics on this issue. An unbiased, thorough inquiry by a sitting judge of high court or a court-monitored probe should be held. Neither the railways nor Congress leaders can be absolved of their responsibility or given a clean chit before the probe,” he told reporters.

LS CANDIDATES TO BE NAMED BY DECEMBER

The core committee, which met under the chairmanship of Budhlada MLA Budh Ram, discussed the process to be followed for the selection of party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He said the first phase of screening of candidates will be completed by November. “The final list will be declared by December-end. All candidates will be finalised by the core committee and names will be sent to the central party for approval,” he said, adding: “No candidate has been announced so far.”

The AAP won four seats in the 2014 elections, but two of them were suspended from the party a year later.

SANDHWAN MADE STATE KISAN CELL CHIEF

A party spokesperson said Kotkpaura MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan has been appointed president of the AAP state kisan cell. Rupnagar MLA Amarjit Singh Sandoa has been made president of the transport wing whereas advocate Jastej Singh Arora is the new state president of the party’s legal cell.