BJP, BSP & Cong leaders join AAP

A number from leaders from the BJP, Congress and the BSP joined the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi on Tuesday (November 25) in presence of party leaders Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh.

Former chairman of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation standing committee and BJP councillor from ward number 24, Bhati (Chattarpur), Kartar Singh Tanwar joined the AAP with a large number of his supporters.

Tanwar promised to work for clean politics and expose the BJP misdeeds in the MCD, which the saffron party has been ruling since seven years and has been converted into a den of corruption. Tanwar has been elected a councillor for the second consecutive term from this ward in South Delhi.

Another councillor Reeta Chauhan, who represents the Bakhtawarpur ward in Narela assembly constituency also joined the AAP. She is currently an independent and had quit the BSP after the 2012 MCD elections.

BSP leader from Narela, Sharad Kumar Chauhan also joined the AAP. He had contested the 2008 assembly election and had narrowly lost from Narela with a margin of 800 votes. He said the AAP is the only party in Delhi which is fighting for the poor and downtrodden.

Former BJP youth leader Vijay Bansal, who has been the state secretary of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, attended the AAP press conference and announced his decision to join the party.

Congress leader from Mundka assembly constituency, Dharampal Lakra, who has been a member of the Food Corporation of India and a former secretary of District Congress Committee also joined the AAP.

The AAP leaders made it clear that leaders from other political parties who do not have a past criminal record and do not face any other serious allegation are welcome to join the party for changing the politics of the country. (ENDS)