Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 5
Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab unit president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on Sunday claimed that a senior BJP leader had offered him money and a place of his choice in the Union cabinet to join the saffron party.
They did it in Madhya Pradesh, Katka, Goa and Meghalaya and now they feel it can be done in Punjab also. , Bhagwant Mann, AAP leader
State BJP president Ashwini Sharma denied the allegations. At a press conference here, Mann claimed that he was contacted four days ago but refused to name the BJP leader.
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He tried to convince me by saying that since I am the lone AAP MP, I cannot be disqualified under the anti-defection law. I’m on a mission, not on commission. My mission is to make Punjab prosperous,” Mann declared, adding that some of his party MLAs were also approached by the BJP.
Holding the BJP responsible for the deaths of over 700 farmers along the Delhi border, the MP said the BJP has no base in Punjab and its leaders were not being allowed to enter villages for meetings and rallies.