AAP appoints Jarnail Singh as Punjab joint in-charge

AAP spokesperson Deepak Bajpai said that Yadav was not being removed from his post. Jarnail will work alongside Yadav as joint in-charge and Punjab spokesperson.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday appointed its Rajouri Garden MLA Jarnail Singh from Delhi as its Punjab joint in-charge, a duty which is being singly performed by Mehrauli legislator Naresh Yadav, who was arrested and later got bail in a Quran desecration case in Punjab.

Jarnail Singh (HT File Photo)

AAP spokesperson Deepak Bajpai said that Yadav was not being removed from his post. Jarnail will work alongside Yadav as joint in-charge and Punjab spokesperson, he said. “Congratulations Rajouri Garden MLA Jarnail Singh on being made the joint in-charge and spokesperson in Punjab,” Sanjay Singh, who is in-charge of AAP’s Punjab affairs said on social media.

AAP is locked in a triangular fight against the BJP-SAD alliance and Congress in the state which goes to polls next year. It released its second list of candidates on Thursday.