Punjab CM’s brother denied ticket but kin of other leaders accommodated by Congress: Raghav Chadha

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha on Wednesday accused the Congress leadership of following an anti-SC policy in its ticket allotment process for the

Assembly elections

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Chadha alleged that Congress does not have a place for SC leaders and while the Congress high command had given tickets to all the big Congress leaders of Punjab, their brothers and nephews, sons and even sons-in-law as per their demands, but brother of CM Channi Dr Manohar Singh had been denied ticket from Dera Bassi even after he clearly expressed his desire to contest assembly elections.

Chadha said Congress had fielded Sunil Jakhar's nephew from Abohar, Lok Sabha MP Amar Singh's son to contest from Raikot, MP Santosh Chaudhary's nephew from Kartarpur and his son will field from Phillaur.

Chadha said that it was not Channi who was insulted by refusing a ticket to his brother but the entire SC community.

He said that it is an old policy of Congress and 18 years ago in Maharashtra, Congress made an SC Chief Minister, Shushil Kumar Shinde, for two months and after elections they replaced him. He said that in Punjab, Channi’s face as the SC CM is being used in a similar manner.