AAP to make ‘Capt-Badal understanding’ poll issue

Chandigarh : After its campaign against the alleged political-drug smuggler nexus via billboards and hoardings, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to make the “understanding” between PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal a major poll issue.
The party has prepared posters highlighting the “understanding” between the two top leaders through comical description. In the posters, the two leaders are shown embracing each other expressing gratitude for help in cases. AAP has prepared a couplet, saying both have come together to eat the “political cream” (malai).
The posters will be displayed across the state, besides their circulation on the social media. Earlier, the party had put up hundreds of posters over the drug issue in the state.
Both Amarinder and Badal are known to be strongly inimical towards each other and had several legal cases against one other.
AAP MP Bhagwant Mann said both Akalis and the Congress had joined hands to defeat AAP. He said the recent closure of a Vigilance case against Amarinder and the “friendly dharna” staged by the Congress outside the CM’s residence were enough to prove their political collusion.
Though Amaridner and Badal spoke against each other even today, AAP aims at spreading the word of their alleged collusion. “The enemy’s enemy is a friend. They have joined hands against AAP as they know that we will expose all their wrongdoings in the state,” said Mann.
AAP state convener Gurpreet Singh Waraich said there was no doubt about the political collusion in Punjab. He said no other political party, pressure group, NGO or any other union or association demanding justice had been allowed to go anywhere near CM’s residence, while protesting Congress MLAs were not only allowed to sit on a dharna there, but adequate arrangements were also made for their food and night stay. Waraich alleged that the recent instance of Badal’s “benevolence” towards Amarinder was evident from the Amritsar Improvement Trust land scam case which he had quietly decided to withdraw after 10 years that had caused the state exchequer a loss of nearly Rs 360 crore.