{"id":307809,"date":"2019-01-06T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307809"},"modified":"2019-01-06T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:27:44","slug":"suspended-mla-sukhpal-khaira-resigns-from-aap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/suspended-mla-sukhpal-khaira-resigns-from-aap\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended MLA Sukhpal Khaira resigns from AAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307810 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/khaira-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab MLA Sukhpal Khaira on Sunday resigned from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a letter addressed to party chief Arvind Kejriwal, Khaira said the AAP \u201chas totally deviated from is founding principles and ideology on which it was formed post the Anna Hazare movement\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cunfortunately after joining the party I realised that the hierarchy of AAP was no different from the traditional centralised political parties. The turn of events into the run up of 2017 Punjab elections further confirmed my belief, that there was no inner party democracy. If you remember I had strongly objected to the distribution of tickets for the Punjab assembly, as we had received reports of money exchange, favouritism and nepotism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cYour meek apology to the drug tainted former Minister Bikram Singh Majithia further revealed your double standards in politics. Your duplicity on the vital issue of Punjab river waters also puts you on the same pedestal of cunning leaders of India. You have blatantly gone back on the most important promise of Swaraj, by centralising all powers with yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His resignation came days after senior advocate HS Phoolka resigned from the AAP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khaira was suspended from the party in November last year for breaching party discipline and indulging in anti-party activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab MLA Sukhpal Khaira on Sunday resigned from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In a letter addressed to party chief Arvind Kejriwal, Khaira said the AAP \u201chas totally deviated from is founding principles and ideology on which it was formed post the Anna Hazare movement\u201d. He said, \u201cunfortunately after joining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[304,306,10509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307811,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307809\/revisions\/307811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}