Chandigarh: Punjab politics is experiencing a constant upheaval. The political battle surrounding the seven MPs who recently left the Aam Aadmi Party and joined the BJP continues. Meanwhile, MP Raghav Chadha and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann met with the President to present their side. Chadha, along with three fellow MPs, met with President Draupadi Murmu.
After meeting the President, Raghav Chadha wrote on the social media platform X, “I felt very proud to meet the Honorable President.” He said, “We told him how the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government is targeting us by misusing the state machinery, simply because we exercised our constitutional rights and decided to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. The same party that once cried foul is now adopting the most toxic form of vendetta politics. We are strengthened by the President’s assurance that constitutional rights and democratic choices must be respected. Today, the Aam Aadmi Party is behaving less like a political party and more like something else.” – Raghav Chadha, Rajya Sabha MP
Honoured to meet the Hon’ble President of India this morning, along with three fellow MPs.
We conveyed how the AAP’s Punjab government is misusing State machinery to target us for exercising our constitutional rights, after two-thirds of MPs chose to merge with the BJP. The… pic.twitter.com/Zpbx6pV0wN
Meanwhile, CM Bhagwant wrote on X, “Today, in Delhi, before the Honorable President, we have strongly raised our voice against the ‘murder of democracy’ taking place in the country. Breaking parties through unconstitutional means and misusing central agencies like the ED-CBI to clean tainted leaders in the BJP’s ‘washing machine’ is a direct assault on our democratic framework. We have made it clear that the cheap tactics of ‘Operation Lotus’ in Punjab will never succeed. Our MLAs are the voice of millions of Punjabis, and Punjabis never tolerate betrayal. As your ‘public servant,’ I assure every Punjabi that we will fight to the last breath to protect the people’s mandate and constitutional values”.
