Announcing a “principles-based alliance”, former Congress central working committee (CWC) member and ex-MP Jagmeet Singh Brar announced unconditional support of his ‘Punjab Lokhit Abhiyan’ forum to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here on Tuesday.
At a joint press conference, an emotional Brar sang paeans of the AAP, comparing its national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to Mahatma Gandhi. “We have not seen Gandhiji but I can see many of his virtues in Kejriwal. He is a messiah,” he said.
Brar had been courting the AAP for several months, sending barely concealed signals through social-media platforms Facebook and Twitter that he wanted to join hands with it. He said he had appreciated the AAP’s work for long. “I believe the AAP is a perfect antidote to the corrupt Akalis and Congress,” he said. “This is the beginning of a mega alliance focussed on (the) 2019 (parliamentary polls). It happened after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee spoke to Kejriwal.”
Asked if the alliance had worked out a seat-sharing formula for the coming Punjab elections, AAP Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh clarified that “it is more like a tie-up, not a political alliance”. On the question of his contesting the assembly polls, Brar said he would “support the party without any precondition” and accept any responsibility it gave him.
{{/usCountry}}Asked if the alliance had worked out a seat-sharing formula for the coming Punjab elections, AAP Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh clarified that “it is more like a tie-up, not a political alliance”. On the question of his contesting the assembly polls, Brar said he would “support the party without any precondition” and accept any responsibility it gave him.
{{/usCountry}}Brar also extended the support of former legislator Dr Harbans Lal, Vijay Sathi, Tarsem Jodhan, and Ripjeet Singh Brar, and former Muktsar district Congress president Gurdas Girdhar to the AAP.
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