HP Congress general secretary joins AAP, more to follow

NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh Congress general secretary Arun Sharma joined the AAP here on Thursday, and claimed more leaders like him will join the ranks of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party in the coming days.

Sharma claimed the Congress unit in Himachal Pradesh was riddled with “groupism”, which was causing disappointment among several leaders of the party.

“Where there are four drivers, accidents are bound to happen. You cannot have four drivers running the party. They have started groupism.

Everybody is competing with each other to form groups. This doesn’t actually benefit the party. It’s causing loss,” Sharma told a press conference at the AAP headquarters here.

“Today, I have come (to join AAP). Tomorrow, 10 more (leaders) like me will come (to join AAP). We all are fed up with the prevailing atmosphere in the Congress,” he said, replying to a question why he quit the Congress.

Sharma said he has joined the AAP along with his “friends and supporters”, looking at the way the party’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has worked in the national capital and has recently “brought an honest government in Punjab”.

“Due to his work and policies, a change is taking place not just in Himachal Pradesh, but all over the country,” he said, asserting that the AAP will get the people’s mandate in the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections this year and form its government in the state.

Besides Arun Sharma, Indian National Trade Union Congress Kullu district general secretary Sanjay Sharma also joined the AAP.

They were officially inducted into the party by the AAP’S Himachal Pradesh incharge and Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain.