Sucha Singh Chhotepur sold tickets: AAP leader

AMRITSAR: The Aam Aadmi Party national council member Ashok Talwar has accused party's former Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur of selling tickets to candidates. He also demanded strict action against AAP's Amritsar zone in-charge Gurinder Singh Bajwa who, according to Talwar, had deliberately convened a meeting on August 30 to spew venom against Arvind Kejriwal, which led to thrashing of party's senior volunteer Anil Mahajan, also known as Kejriwal Two due to his resemblance with the Delhi chief minister.
Talking to newspersons in Amritsar on Wednesday, Talwar alleged that Bajwa had indirectly convened a meeting wherein five truckloads of volunteers were brought from Batala. "There were only a few local volunteers, and even they didn't know the agenda of the meeting," he said.
"Even Bajwa can't indirectly dare to convene such meeting without the consent of Chhotepur. They had already distributed tickets against favours but when party's central leadership rejected their candidates, they started concocting stories," alleged Talwar.
"I was also approached and asked to bow my head in Chhotepur's 'darbar' to get the ticket. But I refused," he claimed.
Talwar informed that AAP's volunteers and the founder members had sent a complaint to party's Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh and Kejriwal demanding strict action against Bajwa and those who were actively involved in trading tickets and had also thrashed Mahajan.
Rejecting the demand of Punjab's six zonal in-charges to send back observers from Delhi, he said, "They are here to keep an eye on party activities and observe its functioning. How can you ask them to send back?"
Mahajan, who was also present in the press conference, said, "I couldn't bear anyone raising slogans against Kejriwal. When they said 'Kejriwal Murdabad', I raised a slogan 'Kejriwal Zindabad' and then as many as 12 persons roughed me up." Refusing to lodge a police complaint against his attackers, Mahajan said, "We can't be like them. I would rather go to their homes with a bouquet of flowers."