AAP workers show black flags to Charanjit Singh Channi in Chamkaur Sahib and Samrala

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged a strong protest against Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi's 'Jawani Sambhal Yatra' in Chamkaur Sahib and Samrala. During the rally, a large gathering of AAP leaders and workers showed black flags to the Congress leaders and raised slogans.

AAP leaders clarified that Charanjit Channi and other Congress leaders are deliberately maintaining silence over the assault on Dalit leader Ranjeet Singh Tarkhan Majra at the party office. Channi, who pushed Punjab's youth into drugs during his tenure and ruined their youth, is now staging a big drama of 'Jawani Sambhal Yatra', and this protest was held to expose it.

In Chamkaur Sahib, led by constituency in-charge Jasvir Singh Garhi, AAP leaders raised slogans against the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi and showed black flags during the rally.

Speaking to the media on this occasion, Jasvir Singh Garhi lashed out at Charanjit Channi, saying that the Congress party has always mistreated Dalits and backward classes. Ranjeet Singh Tarkhan Majra was beaten up in Congress Bhawan, but no action has been taken to date. A notice was issued by the disciplinary committee on November 1, and a week has passed since it expired.

He said that Channi gave a statement saying, "Why didn't Ranjeet Tarkhan Majra hit back with four punches?" What kind of rule does Channi want in Punjab? Does he not believe in Baba Saheb Ambedkar's constitution and want an eye for an eye and a punch for a punch? Being a former Chief Minister, Channi's statement is very childish. Congress cannot stop this matter by calling it an internal family feud. If this is a family feud, why hasn't Ranjeet Singh Tarkhan Majra been heard to date? Why has the SC/ST FIR been withheld? Even today, Varinder Dhillon's associates in Channi's rally made obscene gestures at people from the Dalit community.

The AAP leader further stated that Channi himself is a helpless leader. When he took out a cycle yatra featuring his own picture, the high command twisted his arm to put up pictures of Rahul Gandhi, Kharge, Raja Warring, Bajwa, and Pargat Singh. Today the situation is such that Channi is not even getting a chair on the stage. Sometimes he stands in the back and sometimes he sits on the armrest of a chair. Channi should make it clear to the people of Punjab that he is not a leader of Dalits.

In Samrala too, under the leadership of SC Wing District President Jaspreet Singh Bija, AAP leaders and volunteers staged a fierce protest against Charanjit Singh Channi's 'Jawani Sambhal Yatra' by showing black flags and raising slogans of 'Congress Murdabad'. The leaders said that the Channi who could not protect the dignity of a Dalit leader in his own party office should be ashamed of taking out a 'Jawani Sambhal Yatra' in Punjab.

Key developments

• Protest against Charanjit Singh Channi's yatra in Chamkaur Sahib and Samrala
• AAP targets Congress over the Dalit leader Ranjeet Singh Tarkhan Majra issue
• Allegations against the Congress high command regarding Channi