‘They alone don’t matter much’: Mother
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday attacked the seven Rajya Sabha members who quit AAP through a Pakistan analogy, saying that according to him, the importance of each defector is very little.
In a sarcastic post on His comments came a day after he called the seven turncoats traitors.
In a surprise move on Friday, AAP Rajya Sabha members Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak announced that they are leaving the party and joining the BJP along with five other MPs.
Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Swati Maliwal and Vikramjit Sawhney were the other AAP MPs he named.
Chadha alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has deviated from its principles, values and core ethics, hence he is joining the BJP. He said that all seven have merged with the BJP as a faction.
Soon after the exodus, Mann accused the BJP of trying to break the Aam Aadmi Party and the leaders of betraying the people of Punjab.
Mann claimed that ever since a strict law has been made against ‘sacrilege’, the BJP’s uneasiness has become clear.
Mann also said that none of the seven Rajya Sabha members was a public leader.
“Even a ‘Sarpanch’ has a vote bank. Does he have a vote bank?”. he asked.
Mann said the BJP, which has faced repeated rejection in Punjab, has responded with hostility towards both the state and the Aam Aadmi Party, attempting to undermine the corruption-free government through intimidation, inducement and engineering defections.
He stressed that the BJP’s lack of political ground in the state has pushed it towards such a strategy, and the party is troubled by visible improvements in schools, hospitals, roads and the employment scenario.
