Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh today said that Aam Aadmi Party is turning into a "junkyard for the deadwood" by accepting "rejected" leaders.
"Some leaders who recently left Congress have actually been rejected by the people and are now trying to seek political asylum elsewhere in the false hope of being accepted there," he said here today.
"The way our rejected leaders are being received in AAP, the party is turning out as junkyard for the deadwood in Congress," Amarinder said in a statement.
He said that leaders like Aman Arora, Sukhpal Khaira and C D Kambhoj had successively been defeated in the elections and had lost all hope of being able to contest while remaining in Congress.
Referring to Arora, the state Congress chief said that his family had been allotted ticket to contest polls six times continuously since 1992 and had consecutively lost four times.
Terming it as the "worst betrayal", he said, all the four members of Aman Arora's family including his father Bhagwan Dass Arora, mother Parmeshwari Arora, sister Sonia had been given chance by Congress.
"He probably hopes to repeat the history in AAP as well," Amarinder added.
He also condemned cane-charge on state Youth Congress workers, in Mohali on Friday, who were marching towards the International Airport there demanding that the airport be named after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
Demanding suspension of police officers responsible for the "brutal lathicharge" which left many "seriously injured", Amarinder said, "The youth Congress workers were marching in a peaceful manner and they should not have been stopped."
They were only demanding to name the airport after Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh which is the demand of every Punjabi and every Indian, he added.
The Punjab Congress president said that the "unprovoked"
police action against the state Youth Congress workers exposed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's "double standards".
"Had Badal really been serious about getting the airport named after Bhagat Singh he would not have allowed his police to rain lathis on our youth workers," Amarinder said, alleging that the CM was actually "colluding" with Haryana to get the airport named after RSS leader Mangal Sein.
He also issued a "strict warning to all police officers who were doing Badals' bidding" and said that one year was not a long period after which they will be "held accountable" for all their "unprovoked actions against Congressmen".
Several members of Punjab youth Congress were injured yesterday after police resorted to lathicharge and used water cannons on them while they were protesting to press for their demand to name the international airport at Mohali after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
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Meanwhile, Amarinder Singh today met Sikh preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale and held talks with him in a closed room.
He demanded CBI inquiry into the attack on Dhadrianwale this year while rejecting the probe by Punjab police.
Talking to media persons at Gurdwara Parmeshwar Dwar on Patiala Sangrur road near here in Patiala, he described the murderous attack on RSS leader Jagdish Gagneja as "deep-rooted conspiracy" to disturb peace in the state.
