SAD-BJP allied with Capt Amarinder to keep AAP out: Harpal Singh Cheema

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 24

A day after SAD president alleged Capt Amarinder Singh’s proximity to BJP-RSS during the 2017 Assembly elections, Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema today accused Sukhbir Singh Badal of being the “mastermind” himself.

Addressing mediapersons, Cheema said: “Sukhbir has spoken an incomplete truth. While everyone knows Captain-Congress, BJP-RSS and Badal family had formed an alliance to prevent the AAP from coming to power, the mastermind of this was Sukhbir himself.” Cheema claimed the Akali Dal had been seizing power in Punjab in alliance with the BJP-RSS. “Regarding the 2017 elections, Sukhbir should tell the whole truth that like the BJP-RSS, the SAD had voted for the Congress and Captain Amarinder through its workers,” he added. “The SAD, Congress and Capt Amarinder, BJP and RSS are still colluding to keep the AAP out of Punjab,” he claimed.

Cheema said Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi had also made a deal with the BJP following in in the footsteps of Capt Amarinder Singh. This was evident from the fact that half of Punjab had been handed over to the Centre through the BSF, he claimed.