{"id":11771,"date":"2024-03-28T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/aaps-double-blow-after-cong-losses-as-turncoats-in-punjab-have-field-day-chandigarh-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:18:37","slug":"aaps-double-blow-after-cong-losses-as-turncoats-in-punjab-have-field-day-chandigarh-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/aaps-double-blow-after-cong-losses-as-turncoats-in-punjab-have-field-day-chandigarh-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP\u2019s double blow after Cong losses as turncoats in Punjab have field day | Chandigarh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-108835709,imgsize-1360501.cms?resize=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"AAP\u2019s double blow after Cong losses as turncoats in Punjab have field day | Chandigarh News\" title=\"AAP\u2019s double blow after Cong losses as turncoats in Punjab have field day | Chandigarh News\" \/><\/div>\n<div>CHANDIGARH: It\u2019s a season of <!-- -->turncoats<!-- --> in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/punjab\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\">Punjab<\/a>, ruling Aam Aadmi Party lost two of its leaders to Bharatiya Janata Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bharatiya-janata-party\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\">BJP<\/a>) on Wednesday with its sitting Jalandhar MP Sushil Kumar Rinku and Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural joining the saffron party.<br \/>AAP<!-- --> too recently poached two from <!-- -->Congress<!-- --> \u2013 sitting MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal and former Congress MLA from Bassi Pathana Gurpreet Singh GP.Chabbewal is hoping to get a ticket from Hoshiarpur and Gurpreet Singh GP was named the party\u2019s candidate from Fatehgarh Sahib for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.<br \/>Congress also lost its sitting Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu to BJP just a day earlier. Its Patiala MP Preneet Kaur, who is wife of former CM Capt Amarinder Singh, too joined the saffron party earlier this month in an expected switch.<br \/>The state, which is facing a four-cornered contest, is expected to see more of these party switches in the run up to the Lok Sabha election, to be held in the last phase on June 1.<br \/>In an apparent reference to the \u2018yaar mera titlian varga\u2019 (my friend is like butterflies) jibe at him by CM Bhagwant Mann in the budget session of the assembly, Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa posted on X, \u201cHe took one of ours, they took two of his. Bhagwant Mann ji, the pit you have dug in our way, you yourself have now fallen in that well.\u201d<br \/>Rinku\u2019s switch, which came after weeks of intense speculation about his move to the saffron party, had the Aam Aadmi Party on the offensive on Wednesday.<br \/>CM Mann took to \u2018X\u2019 with a cryptic post to hit out at Rinku and Angural. 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