Party cadre upset at Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon’s induction, claims AAP's Gidderbaha leader

Tribune News Service

Gidderbaha/Muktsar, Aug 29

A day after former SAD leader Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon joined AAP, party’s Gidderbaha constituency incharge Pritpal Sharma today left for Chandigarh to inform senior party leaders that traditional AAP workers were depressed as they would now have to work with SAD workers with whom they had been at loggerheads so far.

Yesterday, CM Bhagwant Mann had given hints that Dimpy would get the AAP ticket for the upcoming bypoll.

Pritpal, chairman of the Gidderbaha Market Committee, had, on Wednesday, stayed away from the CM’s programme. He contested the Assembly elections from Gidderbaha in 2022 and secured 38,881 votes. In the Lok Sabha elections, AAP had polled 20,310 votes from Gidderbaha.

Speaking on the phone, Pritpal said, “I am going to Chandigarh to meet the secretary of our party’s state unit and have sought time from Sandeep Pathak too. I am not opposing the induction of Dimpy into AAP, but will tell them that the old workers also need respect. Barring a few leaders from Gidderbaha, none attended the CM’s event yesterday. Some depressed workers had on Tuesday gone to meet Cabinet minister Aman Arora in Chandigarh as well.”

Pritpal claimed he had offers from other parties, but was not having any such plan.