Stamping on the rumours of him joining the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab, MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal joined AAP on Friday, the same day he left Congress. As per the sources, Chabbewal might get Hoshiarpur's seat for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
He joined the AAP here and was welcomed into the party fold by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Chabbewal becomes the second Congress leader to quit the party within a week. Previously, ex-Congress MLA from Bassi Pathana Gurpreet Singh GP had recently joined the AAP.
The 54-year-old Chabbewal said he has quit as a legislator from Chabbewal assembly constituency in Hoshiarpur district. The prominent Dalit leader was the Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly.
In a post in Punjabi on X, the AAP state unit said the party has been further strengthened with the joining of Chabbewal. Impressed by the pro-people policies of Bhagwant Mann, Chabbewal, who is an MLA, has joined AAP. Many many congratulations to him from the party, the AAP posted along with photos of Chabbewal being welcomed by the CM.
However, Chabbewal did not mention any reason for quitting the party. Hailing from Punjab's Doaba region, Chabbewal had also contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hoshiarpur on a Congress ticket but had lost to the BJP's Som Prakash.
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