{"id":106944,"date":"2017-10-01T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=106944"},"modified":"2017-10-01T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:44:36","slug":"setback-aap-two-senior-leaders-supporters-join-punjab-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/106944","title":{"rendered":"Setback to AAP,  two senior leaders and supporters join Punjab Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106945 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201716.jpg 900w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201716-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106946 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201717.jpg 900w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PPN3009201717-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pathankot, Sept. 30 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; <\/strong>In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Gurdaspur by-elections, two of its senior leaders, Kulbhushan Singh, who contested the last assembly elections, and its General Secretary, Lakhvir Singh, joined the Congress, along with a large number of supporters, on Saturday in the presence of Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh Welcoming them into the party fold, the chief minister said that the joining of the AAP leaders and workers would further strengthen the Congress and ensure a landslide victory for PPCC president and party nominee, Sunil Jakhar. Assuring the chief minister of their full support, the erstwhile AAP leaders said they had quit Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s party, as it had failed to meet the aspirations of the people. They also accused the AAP\u2019s national and state leadership of ignoring local leaders and workers. While Kulbushan, an advocate, had contested the 2017 assembly polls on AAP ticket from Sujanpur, Lakhvir was the party\u2019s co-ordinator for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathankot, Sept. 30 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Gurdaspur by-elections, two of its senior leaders, Kulbhushan Singh, who contested the last assembly elections, and its General Secretary, Lakhvir Singh, joined the Congress, along with a large number of supporters, on Saturday in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Setback to AAP, two senior leaders and supporters join Punjab Congress | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/106944\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Setback to AAP, two senior leaders and supporters join Punjab Congress | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pathankot, Sept. 30 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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