Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Congress party MLA and the deputy leader of the Opposition in Punjab Raj Kumar Chabbewal on Friday quit the party and joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Mr. Chabbewal, a prominent Dalit leader was inducted into the party by AAP state president and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann here. Mr. Chabbewal said he has quit as a legislator from the Chabbewal assembly constituency in Hoshiarpur district. Mr. Chabbewal is likely to be fielded from the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat by the AAP, said sources.
He is the second prominent Congress leader, after ex-Congress MLA from Bassi Pathana Gurpreet Singh GP, who joined the AAP recently.
Addressing a press conference, he said that his only motive for coming to politics was that he wanted to work for the common people, develop the poor, and provide education and health facilities to all. He was in the Congress Party for almost 12 years and did good work in his assembly which is why he was elected again from the Chabbewal constituency in 2022 despite the wave of the AAP.
