‘AAP won’t tie up with any party in Punjab’

All the good people of other parties who want prosperity of Punjab are warmly welcomed in the Aam Aadmi Party. RAGHAV CHADHA,

AAP’s Punjab affairs co-incharge

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab affairs co-incharge and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha on Monday said the party would contest the 2022 assembly elections in Punjab on its own and form its government.

“The party will field its candidates in all the 117 assembly constituencies,” he said in response to a query on the possibility of an election pact with other parties.

Earlier Chadha and AAP’s state unit chief Bhagwant Mann welcomed Congress leader Gurmeet Singh Khudian into the party.

Khudian, son of former Lok Sabha MP Jagdev Singh Khudian, was chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s covering candidate in Lambi assembly segment in the 2017 state polls.

Khudian switched sides to AAP along with his associates, including several sarpanches, panches and samiti members.

Responding to another question, Chadha said that all the good people of other parties who want prosperity of Punjab are warmly welcomed in the AAP.

Welcoming Khudian, Mann said he belonged to a reputed family of Malwa region that has considerable influence in Muktsar, Faridkot and Bathinda districts.

His father, Jagdev Singh Khudian, was a member of Lok Sabha from Faridkot.

Chadha claimed that the Congress leaders in collusion with the Badals did not allow Khudian to rise in politics. Khudian, who was the district Congress committee president in Muktsar, said he was impressed with the pro-people policies of the AAP and the work done by the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi.

“The Congress government ignored Malwa and the Congress workers there,” he alleged.