BATHINDA: Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Haiti assembly constituency in district Faridkot has resigned from primary membership of the party. He forwarded his resignation to party national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday morning. Earlier another MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira had resigned and have floated Punjabi Ekta Party.In his resignation letter Baldev Singh has written that he is pained to forward resignation from the primary membership of AAP because the party has completely given up its basic ideology and principles."I was deeply motivated and moved by the anti-corruption movement launched by Anna Hazare and thus decided to become part of AAP. In order to improve the socio-political situation of our country particularly of our state Punjab I went to the extent of quitting my government job as Head Teacher, although I had more than 4 years of service left. This step of mine not only created panic in my family but also left my future unsure but yet I preferred to take a risk merely due to the lofty promises made by you and AAP", he wrote."Many Punjabis like me saw a dream to improve the plight of Punjab through the third alternative created by AAP and whole heartedly supported this dream in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by sending 4 MPs from the state, at a time when the security deposit of most candidates across the country were forfeited. Instead of expressing faith in the abilities of Punjabis and rewarding them you preferred to send an army of outsiders to muzzle the voice of our people."This arrogant and over confident attitude of the party hierarchy led to a crashing defeat of AAP in Punjab in the 2017 assembly elections. Learning no lesson to fix accountability you never bothered to look into the reasons of this humiliating defeat and have once again handed over the reins of Punjab to outsiders", he further wrote."We in Punjab were deeply shocked when you unceremoniously and undemocratically removed Sukhpal Singh Khaira from the post of Leader of opposition, without taking Punjab MLAs into confidence. Although few handpicked MLAs were invited for a pre-planned meeting in Delhi but most MLAs were pressurised to sign on dotted lines through a letter circulated to them on WhatsApp. Some MLAs were called by Manish Sisodia on telephone to solicit their views but I categorically state that I was neither invited for any meeting nor even called on phone to ascertain my views while illegitimately removing Khaira. To further rub salt on the woes of Punjabis you played the Dalit card as a reason to remove Khaira and appoint Harpal Cheema as LoP. Let me remind you that not a single Dalit of Punjab accepted this ploy of dalit card because of the track record of AAP. The Punjab AAP never bothered to appoint even one Dalit as District President out of 26 such appointments, similarly no Dalit was appointed Zone President while expanding its state organisational structure post 2017 elections, nor did you consider any Dalit for the three Rajya Sabha seats of Delhi. If you are so genuinely concerned about the upliftment of the weaker sections and dalits, why don’t you appoint a Dalit to the top three positions of AAP currently held by you and Manish Sisodia i.e. Convenor, chief minister and deputy chief minister, he wrote in his resignation letter."As a result of your dictatorial, arrogant and autocratic style of functioning, pioneers of AAP like Parashant Bhushan, Yogender Yadav, Medha Patikar, Kiran Bedi, Dr. Gandhi, HS Khalsa, Sucha Singh Chottepur, Gurpreet Ghuggi , Ashish Khetan, Ashutosh, HS Phoolka etc. have all left the party or have been thrown out in a humiliating manner."Therefore, keeping in view the above saddening developments and circumstances in mind which portray AAP in the same category of rampantly corrupt traditional parties like the Congress, BJP, SAD, I have decided to quit as primary member of AAP," he concluded.

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