Chandigarh, June 3

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were playing a fixed match and the AAP had continuously allowed its MLAs to shift their loyalties to the Congress as a part of an unofficial tie-up with it, playing a constitutional and democratic fraud with the people of the state.

The SAD president said, “This proves beyond doubt that the Congress and AAP are one and the same. The Congress routinely takes AAP legislators on deputation as and when needed, particularly during elections. It has again taken three legislators on board at a time when Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh is facing a challenge to his chair.”

Sukhbir said it was shocking that all constitutional requirements had been thrown to the wind with turncoat AAP legislators being allowed to keep their seats in the Vidhan Sabha only because they were supporting the Congress government. He said the rebel AAP legislators were allowed to keep their membership of the Vidhan Sabha despite leaving the parent party, forming new parties and even switching over to the Congress openly. — TNS