May ally with AAP if it doesn’t go with Cong: Khaira after meeting Brahmpura

  • | Saturday | 12th January, 2019

“It is a good sign” he saidBrahmpura added that BSP, LIP, PEP, AAP and SAD (Taksali) could transform Punjab. If AAP doesn’t make any alliance with Congress in Delhi or Punjab, we could invite it to be the part of our grand alliance. However, AAP will have to declare that it is against the Congress and the Badals.”He added that AAP had been decimated in Punjab. Both SAD (Taksali) and PEP want to get rid of the Congress and the SAD (Badal)-BJP alliance in Punjab. “They (AAP leaders) can meet Taksalis, but I am very sure no party will form any kind of alliance with it because it has no strength.

AMRITSAR: Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP) president Sukhpal Singh Khaira reached out to his former party, AAP, after a meeting with SAD (Taksali) president Ranjit Singh Brahmpura on Friday.Khaira said there was a possibility of PEP inviting Aam Aadmi Party for a grand alliance, but only if it did not join hands with the Congress or with the Badal-led SAD in Punjab or Delhi.Khaira met Brahmpura at the latter’s residence for about one and a half hour.He said AAP would have to declare it was anti-Congress and anti-Badals for allying with his outfit.After meeting Brahmpura, Khaira, in reply to a question over including AAP in the proposed grand alliance, said, “In politics, there is no harm of discussion with other parties. If AAP doesn’t make any alliance with Congress in Delhi or Punjab, we could invite it to be the part of our grand alliance. However, AAP will have to declare that it is against the Congress and the Badals.”He added that AAP had been decimated in Punjab. “They (AAP leaders) can meet Taksalis, but I am very sure no party will form any kind of alliance with it because it has no strength. All of AAP’s rank and file is with PEP; the party is left with just 1-2% of the support it actually had,” he said.He added that the leaders of Punjab Democratic Alliance — comprising Bahujan Samaj Party , Sangrur MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi, and the Bains brothers of Lok Insaf Party — met in Jalandhar on Thrusday and he had come to meet Brahmpura as a follow-up to the meeting.Before meeting Brahmpura, Khaira and members of PEP paid obeisance at Golden Temple, Durgiana Temple, and Ram Teerath.Brahampura, after the meeting, expressed hope of forming a grand alliance in near future. “The meeting was very cordial. Both SAD (Taksali) and PEP want to get rid of the Congress and the SAD (Badal)-BJP alliance in Punjab. Now that like-minded parties and leaders are making efforts, things are looking brighter,” he said.He said Khaira had even given his consent to be a part of a grand alliance, even if AAP was one of its constituents but on the condition that it did not forge an alliance with the Congress. “It is a good sign” he saidBrahmpura added that BSP, LIP, PEP, AAP and SAD (Taksali) could transform Punjab.

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