In a significant setback to the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, senior MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal resigned from the social gathering and joined the Aam Aadmi Party. He was welcomed into the social gathering by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The 54-year-old Chabbewal, who’s a legislator from Chabbewal meeting constituency in Hoshiarpur district, posted on X, “Resigned today from INC and Legislative Assembly Punjab.”
“I tender my resignation from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress with immediate effect,” wrote Chabbewal in his letter to the Congress president, which he additionally posted on X. However, he didn’t reveal any purpose for quitting the social gathering.
In one other letter to the Punjab Assembly Speaker, which he additionally posted on X, Chabbewal, the Deputy Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly, wrote, “I hereby submit my resignation from membership of legislative assembly, Punjab, with immediate effect”.
According to sources, the AAP might area him from the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat.
Chabbewal was re-elected from Chabbewal Assembly seat within the 2022 state elections.
The distinguished Dalit leader, who comes from Punjab’s Doaba area, had additionally contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hoshiarpur on a Congress ticket however had misplaced to the BJP’s Som Prakash.
Gurpreet Singh GP, a former Congress MLA from Bassi Pathana, had just lately joined the AAP.
(With inputs from businesses)
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