AAP appoints 680 new office-bearers
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, December 24
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, has started the work of strengthening its organisation on a large scale.
As many as 680 circle in-charge were appointed here on Thursday during a state-level function organised by the party in Jalandhar.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Harpal Singh Cheema, MLA Jai Kishan Rodi, state general secretary Harchand Singh Barsat, Harminder Bakshi, district in-charge (urban) Rajwinder Kaur and district in-charge (rural) and principal Prem Kumar, handed over the responsibilities to the newly appointed office-bearers.
Before the commencement of the function, tributes were paid to farmers, who died in the ongoing struggle to repeal agricultural laws.
Cheema said to strengthen the party, 22 state office-bearers, 168 district-level office-bearers, 468 block-level office-bearers and 4,500 circle-level office-bearers have been appointed so far. He said the party had appointed one circle president for five villages and wards and work would be done to strengthen the party by making over two lakh people join the party in the next two months.
MLA Jai Kishan Rodi said the party would be stronger with the hard work of leaders. He said the future of Punjab was looking bleak due to the mistakes of the Centre and Punjab governments.
Rodi said: “While today the Centre wants to destroy farmers and agriculture, Capt Amarinder Singh is looting Punjab at the hands of all kinds of mafias.”
Harchand Singh Barsat and Harminder Bakshi said illicit drugs and liquor trade was mushrooming under the patronage of Capt Amarinder Singh and other Congress leaders in his district.
On the occasion, Mohan Lal district president Hoshiarpur, Karamjit Kaur district secretary Hoshiarpur, Gurpal Singh, district president Kapurthala, Nirmal Singh district secretary Kapurthala, Shiv Charan Chechi district in charge Nawanshahr, Manohar Lal Gaba, general secretary Nawanshahr, Subhash Sharma, general secretary, Jalandhar, treasurer Mangal Singh, Media in charge Tarandeep Sunny, Sanjeev Bhagat, Santokh Bhagat, Harcharan Sandhu, Navjot Mehta Hoshiarpur, Lalit Madan, Kulwinder Singh, Harpal Dhillon, Gurmeet Singh Pannu, Ranbir Rana and Amardeep Banga were present.
