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Punjab: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, senior MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal resigned from the party and joined the Aam Aadmi Party. The 54-year-old Chabbewal said he has quit as a legislator from Chabbewal assembly constituency in Hoshiarpur district.
He was welcomed into the party by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. He posted on social media platform 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.
However, he did not reveal any reason for quitting the party. Chabbewal is the second Congress leader from Punjab to join the AAP within a week. In another letter to the Punjab Assembly Speaker, which he also posted on X, Chabbewal, the deputy leader of opposition in the Punjab Assembly, wrote, “I tender my resignation from the membership of the Punjab Assembly with immediate effect.”
Gurpreet Singh GP, a former Congress MLA from Bassi Pathana, had recently joined the AAP. According to sources, the AAP may field him from the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seat.
Chabbewal was re-elected from Chabbewal Assembly seat in the 2022 state elections. Hailing from Punjab’s Doaba region, Chabbewal had also contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Hoshiarpur on a Congress ticket but had lost to the BJP’s Som Prakash.
