AAP women’s wing leader Surinder Kaur quits party

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 21

Prominent trade union leader and joint secretary of the women wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Surinder Kaur has quit the party while charging the party leadership with ignoring local leaders.

Addressing a news conference here today, she said certain self-styled leaders hailing from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were holding the party in a vice-like grip, while local leaders with mass base and having connect with the public, were being ignore. She also alleged that party chief Arvind Kejriwal had failed to present a pro-people alternative before the public and his hollow claims were solely aimed at securing political power in Punjab.

Surinder Kaur levelled allegations against AAP leadership of granting party tickets to self-seekers, sycophants or else on monetary considerations.

“The so-called AAP leaders, who are dominating the Punjab scenario, are shying away from contesting even a single seat from Uttar Pradesh, the state to which they belong,” she said.

Surinder Kaur spearheaded the trade union movement in the state from 1969 till her retirement from government service in 2005. She was terminated from service while being an adhoc teacher for participating in the strike. Moreover, she spent 10 days in Burail Jail in 1987 for supporting the strike by teachers in Haryana.

Decrying the misrule by SAD-BJP government in Punjab, she said youth were rendered unemployed and caught in the trap of drugs, while senior functionaries of the government themselves were involved neck-deep in drug trafficking.

She said she would now direct the fight against drugs and other intoxicants and would extend support to all such candidates in the Assembly elections of 2017, who would be pledged to curb the menace of drugs, lawlessness, unemployment and corruption.