Amritsar: Two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders,
along with 43 of their supporters, today joined the Shiromani
Akali Dal (SAD) here in the presence of its president Sukhbir
Singh Badal, a party statement said.
The AAP's former Majha zone president Kanwalpreet Singh
Kaki and former Backward Caste wing chairman Manmohan Singh
Bhagowalia joined the SAD along with their supporters, the SAD
party release said.
Welcoming the leaders and their 43 associates, including
office bearers, into the SAD, Badal said their deserting the
AAP left the party with zero presence in Majha.
"You will see the AAP going down across the state in the
next 15 days," he said, adding that the competition in the
municipal elections would now be between the Congress party
and the SAD-BJP combine, and the AAP was out of the picture.
Badal said the loss in strength of the AAP was evident
from the fact that it could not even put up a candidates from
Bholath, the assembly constituency represented by Leader of
the Opposition Sukhpal Khaira.
PTI
