Defections vindicate Cong stand, AAP outsourced governance to Delhi: Warring

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday said the defection of seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs to the BJP, and the subsequent revelations, vindicated the Congress party's stand that the ruling AAP dispensation in Punjab had "outsourced governance to its Delhi leadership".Referring to chief minister Bhagwant Mann's admission that Raghav Chadha was allotted "the elite House No. 50", which falls in the chief minister's pool, Warring asked in what capacity he had been allotted that house? The AAP and the CM owe an explanation to the people of Punjab.Warring said the AAP leaders were crying hoarse that the defecting MPs had betrayed Punjab, but the fact was that Punjab and the Punjabis never had any expectations from them."People of Punjab were actually betrayed the day you nominated all those people, some outsiders and some moneybags to Rajya Sabha," he told the AAP. "The AAP is just reaping the whirlwind. What you sow, so shall you reap," the Congress leader remarked.He said it was in the interest of the people of Punjab that the MPs defected, as it made the AAP reveal and admit so many things, which till now, only the opposition parties had been saying."Whether it was the Parliament membership or the power that these people enjoyed, it was all at the expense of the people of Punjab, rather the Punjabi AAP workers who were ignored to reward and accommodate the outsiders," said the Ludhiana MP, adding that the Punjabis would remember it forever.Warring said he had all the sympathies for all those AAP workers and leaders from Punjab whose hard work was ignored and overlooked to accommodate the businessmen, industrialists, moneybags and outsiders.MSID:: 130515562 413 |