For a change Capt Amarinder Singh loyalist joins AAP

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Congress mayor joins Aam admi Party in Punjab — AAP logo

For a change Capt Amarinder Singh loyalist joins AAP

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In an utter surprise, a day after calling it quits with the Congress, Lali Majithia joined the Aam Aadmi Party ahead of the Punjab assembly elections in the presence of AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday. AAP Punjab Co-incharge Raghav Chadha was present at the joining ceremony. Former MP Professor Sadhu Singh’s daughter Dr. Baljit Kaur and BSP state general secretary Gurbaksh Singh too joined the Aam Aadmi Party at Amritsar today.

For a change Capt Amarinder Singh loyalist joins AAP — Lali Majithia

Sukhjinder Raj Singh Lalli alias Lalli Majithia was an influential Congress leader in Majha region. He is very popular among the people of the region and his hold is very strong in every section of the society. Lalli Majithia along with hundreds of his colleagues, associates left the Congress party and joined AAP on Saturday. Along with the joining, the party has also declared Lalli Majithia as its candidate from Majitha assembly constituency.

Raghav Chadha said that due to the mutual collusion of Akali Dal Badal and Congress in Majitha, Akali Dal has been winning continuously for many elections. The Aam Aadmi Party shall break this alliance by fielding a strong candidate in the form of Lalli Majithia. We are sure that Lalli Majithia will fight Akali-Congress with full force and will make Aam Aadmi Party victorious from this seat.

He was a close confidant of former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh.To counter the Majha brigade in the Punjab Congress, former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh appointed the traditional party leader from Majitha, Sukhjinder Raj Singh (Lalli Majithia), as the Chairman of Punjab State Grain Procurement Corporation (Pungrain) in June 2021.

Current state general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Gurbaksh Singh, BSP state secretary Savinder Singh, BSP leader and former DSP of Punjab Police Prahlad Singh, BSP leaders Khajan Singh, Ram Singh and Jagtar Singh also joined AAP. The prominent names who joined the party on Saturday are Dr Baljit Kaur, daughter of senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Faridkot MP Professor Sadhu Singh. Baljit Kaur is a very popular eye surgeon and well-known social worker. Before joining AAP, she was serving as a specialist doctor in the health department. She performed eyes’ operation of thousands of poor people free of cost by setting up camps in the area and provided medical facilities to the people.