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AAP’s MLA Nazar Singh Manshahia joins Congress

Mumbai: In the ongoing Lok Sabha election, Punjab MLA Nazar Singh Manshahia today joined the Congress party in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

Singh said that it is a clear sign of disenchantment within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday.

“With Manshahia Congress, it would further strengthen the party, which is riding a wave of the strong public mood in its flavour,” Singh added.

Manshahia is an engineering graduate from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, who won the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections from Mansa.

“Like-minded people from other parties were joining the Congress in Punjab in large numbers. It was a clear sign of disillusionment within AAP, which had lost its ‘locus stand’ amid a party-wide rebellion,” said Captain Amarinder Singh.

Manshahia said, “He wanted to serve the people of Punjab, which he felt Congress was best equipped to do.

AAP had collectively lost the narrative in Punjab, with no positive agenda or ideology to guide it.”

A first – time MLA, Manshahia is currently Member of Committee on Government Assurances of Punjab Vidhan Sabha. He has also worked as a senior environmental engineer till 2015 in Punjab Pollution Control Board.

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