Suspended AAP MPs may join Yogendra Yadav's Swaraj Abhiyan

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has become a divided house in Punjab. After expelling Daljit Singh as the vice-chairman of its state disciplinary committee, the party on Friday suspended two MPs Dharamvir Gandhi and Harinder Singh Khalsa from the primary membership of the party for anti-party activities. Though Gandhi and Khalsa have not made it public, sources close to them say both may join Yogendra Yadav's Swaraj Abhiyan soon.

Though Gandhi and Khalsa have not made it public, but sources close to them say both may join Yogendra Yadav's Swaraj Abhiyan in near future.

According to sources, dissidents -Dharamvir Gandhi, Harinder Singh Khalsa, Rabbi Shergill and Daljit Singh - were becoming more popular than the party's Punjab in-charge Sanjay Singh, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann and state convener Sucha Singh Chotepur.

Sources said the appointment of Sucha Singh Chotepur as state convener was the bone of contention among leaders in Punjab, dividing the party into two camps.

Yadav, who was expelled from AAP for indiscipline and anti-party activities, is these days politically active in Punjab and Haryana. He had launched his Jai Kisan Andolan from Chappar Chiri in June last month.

"Delhi darbar suspended the MPs because it is baffled by self-respecting Punjabis and rattled by the huge support they are getting from the people. The suspension of these MPs shows the AAP leadership is afraid of leaders who have the courage to speak the truth," Yadav said.

Speaking about internal rift in AAP, former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said, "AAP is also not in a position to provide the proper government. AAP was just an experiment which was struggling to survive in Delhi and had no scope in Punjab."

The former Punjab chief minister also cautioned people against shouting and sloganeering by AAP, saying it did not have any experienced person who could lead.

He also asserted that Congress was in a very strong position and totally united in Punjab as was proved by the attendance of leaders, sitting and former MLAs and people participating in his rallies across the state.

He added that the 2017 assembly elections may turn out to be a contest between the Congress and AAP with the Akali Dal and the BJP remaining on the fringes only.

AAP had secured four of the 13 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with 24.4 voteshare.

'AAP is a pack of lies'

Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday termed the Aam Aadmi Party as a pack of lies and a party of contradictions.

"AAP had woven in image around simplicity and austerity and it was the same party whose every leader is embroiled in a controversy. AAP leaders have lost its base among the masses. Parties like AAP are opportunists," Badal said. Badal said that AAP has managed to mislead people once, but the same would not be happen again.

"The AAP has split up in Punjab as there is no workmanship in the leaders and cadre alike," she said adding that AAP does not even consider it good enough to maintain good relations with its MP. To a query on problems of sugarcane farmers, the She said the Punjab chief minister has already passed directives to give relief to the sugarcane farmers within a week.