Unhappy over ticket allotment, AAP workers meet Kejriwal

Sanjay Bumbroo

Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, August 20

Aam Aadmi Party volunteers in the two Assembly segments of Bassi Pathana and Amloh have met national AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal expressing resentment against ticket allotment to candidates for the two constituencies in this district.

According to the volunteers, both candidates - Santokh Singh Salana and Gurpreet Singh Bhatti – are outsiders.

Santokh Singh is a resident of Amloh while Bhatti is a resident of Khanna in Ludhiana district.

Party sources said a delegation of party volunteers from both constituencies went to Delhi last evening and met Kejriwal to apprise their resentment for ignoring the local candidates and giving ticket to outsiders. They said Kejriwal had assured the delegation that he would look into the matter and hold a survey again to decide the matter.

Workers further said local leader Roshan Lal Sood, who had retired from the Education Department, had been active in the Amloh constituency and aggressively campaigning for the party. However, the party had ignored him by allotting ticket to Bhatti thus causing resentment among the workers.