Namrata, Kundal, Tony resign from AAP; joining Congress at Delhi on Monday

STATE TIMES NEWS

Jammu: Three AAP leaders in Jammu, including a District Development Council (DDC) member, along with many workers resigned from the party on Saturday.
DDC member Taranjit Singh Tony, Yash Pal Kundal and the AAP’s Jammu women wing president Namrata Sharma wrote separately to Kejriwal informing him about their decision to quit the party.
Sources told STATE TIMES that they are joining the Congress in the national capital on Monday along with several other senior leaders including former minister Manohar Lal Sharma, Ex MLC Naresh Gupta and Ex MLC Sham Lal Bhagat. Some of them have already left for Delhi by train this evening while the others are likely to fly to Delhi on Sunday.
“There was no policy and no leadership. So I decide to quit the AAP”, said Namrata Sharma , an active woman leader in Jammu, adding “we have to do a lot for the welfare of people of J&K especially for the women.”
“Eight months have passed but the party office in Jammu has not opened even once. We feel sidelined in the party and thus decided to say goodbye to it after making several failed attempts to reach out to the leadership,” Tony told reporters .
He said they joined the AAP in Delhi last year after being influenced by its programmes and manifesto, besides seeing its rule in Delhi and Punjab.
“After the change of leadership in Jammu and Kashmir, the party has lost its track,” Tony said.
“The urban local bodies and panchayat elections are round the corner but there is no discussion on these leave aside formulating a strategy for the polls,” he said.
Kundal said over AAP 200 office-bearers, including its district presidents and secretaries, have resigned and are now free to join any “secular party”.