Close X
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
ADVT 
India

AAP instigating people in Punjab: Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu

IANS, 12 Feb, 2016 11:25 AM
    The AAP is instigating Punjab's people and the Congress will oppose Arvind Kejriwal's visit to Punjab this month if the AAP did not change its agenda for the border state, a Congress parliamentarian said on Thursday.
     
    "Punjab is a very sensitive state and it has already paid a very big price after the emotions of the people were played upon. Kejriwal should not indulge in this kind of politics at all; otherwise, he will have to pay a big price for it," Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu said in a statement here. 
     
    "Kejriwal should not play with fire by inciting public sentiments in Punjab. It is a very dangerous style of politics indulged in by the AAP." 
     
    "The Punjab Congress will not allow Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to visit Punjab if the Aam Aadmi Party does not change its anti-national agenda for Punjab ahead of the next Vidhan Sabha elections," 
     
    "I will lead a protest to stop him along with 35,000 families affected by terrorism in the state in the past. His cavalcade won't be allowed to enter the state," the Congress leader warned.
     
    Kejriwal is scheduled to begin his week-long tour of Punjab on February 20 ahead of assembly polls in February next year.
     
    The Delhi chief minister is expected to meet families of farmers who committed suicide in Punjab in recent years. 
     
     
    Kejriwal addressed a major AAP rally at the Maghi religious fair in Punjab's Bathinda district last month.
     
    Bittu also questioned the "rise in the source of funding of AAP".
     
    "This (funding) also raises serious doubts. The way this party is being funded, it is clear there is involvement of anti-social elements who are sponsoring them from abroad in a big way. Kejriwal should clear his stand on the source of funding," Bittu said.
     
    The AAP is posing a political challenge to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance and the Congress, which have dominated Punjab's political space in the past few decades.
     
    Earlier, Kejriwal told the media in Delhi that the AAP is set to win the Punjab assembly elections, adding that he expected the Congress to finish a distant second.
     
    "We are winning (in Punjab)," Kejriwal said at his residence in the national capital. "Delhi will be repeated in Punjab."
     
    "The Akalis are in a bad shape," he added.
     
    Kejriwal led the Aam Aadmi Party to a sweeping win in February last year in Delhi, where it secured 67 of the 70 seats.

    MORE India ARTICLES

    Three-Year-Old Girl Raped In Delhi By Unidentified Assailant

    Three-Year-Old Girl Raped In Delhi By Unidentified Assailant
    A case has been registered against unknown people in south Delhi's Sarojini Nagar police station, and efforts were on to identify the accused, police said.

    Three-Year-Old Girl Raped In Delhi By Unidentified Assailant

    Lalit Modi Partying At Foreign Locales: Huffington Post

    Lalit Modi Partying At Foreign Locales: Huffington Post
    Huffington Post India reproduced the email exchanges between Sushma Swaraj, Lalit Modi, Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz, and the minister's family.

    Lalit Modi Partying At Foreign Locales: Huffington Post

    Sushma In Row Over Helping Lalit Modi With Travel Papers

    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday was at the centre of a row after admitting to having helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi procure documents to travel to Portugal last July on "humanitarian grounds"

    Sushma In Row Over Helping Lalit Modi With Travel Papers

    Will Fight For Your Rights: Rahul Tells Sanitation Workers

    Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reiterated his support for Delhi's sanitation workers, saying he will give his "whole life" to fight for the rights of the under-privileged.

    Will Fight For Your Rights: Rahul Tells Sanitation Workers

    Six Dead, 100 Hospitalised In Ammonia Gas Leak In Ludhiana

    Six Dead, 100 Hospitalised In Ammonia Gas Leak In Ludhiana
    The leak occurred when the tanker got stuck under a flyover on the Doraha Bypass Road along a canal, about 25 kms from here, they said.

    Six Dead, 100 Hospitalised In Ammonia Gas Leak In Ludhiana

    Khalistani Terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar Shifted To Amritsar Jail

    Khalistani Terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar Shifted To Amritsar Jail
    Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on death row, was shifted to the Amritsar Central Jail from Delhi's Tihar Jail on Friday, a government official said.

    Khalistani Terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar Shifted To Amritsar Jail