Punjab's main opposition AAP today postponed a legislators' meeting to frame a strategy for the upcoming Assembly session to August 24 to allow the party's rebel faction to participate.
The meeting was scheduled to be held today. It was deferred after a group of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) dissident MLAs, led by ousted Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Khaira, alleged that the meeting was deliberately called today to coincide with their volunteers' convention at Kotkapura.
"We have postponed the meeting of our party legislators to August 24 (and it will be held) at 11 am at the Vidhan Sabha," Dirba MLA and LoP in the Punjab Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema said.
"Kanwar Sandhu yesterday said that they (rebel faction) wanted to attend the meeting but it was deliberately scheduled for today so that they could not attend it. Therefore, we postponed it and they are now welcome to (join) the meeting," he said.
Invitations for the meeting will be sent again to all the MLAs, he added.
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When asked how the party will put up a united face in the Assembly in the wake of the ongoing infighting, Cheema ruled out the possibility of any embarrassing situation.
"They (rebel group) may do whatever they want to do outside. But in the Vidhan Sabha they will have to go by the party line," he asserted.
The three-day Assembly session will be held from August 24 to 28.
The AAP plunged into crisis after Khaira was sacked as the LoP in July.
Ever since the crisis has only deepened with the dissidents forming an ad hoc Political Affairs Committee (PAC) and naming Khaira as the interim chief of the party's state unit.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has played down the infighting, calling it a family matter.
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