“Chhotepur video proves AAP party of looters”

Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal has said that the video showing Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur taking money had proved that the new political outfit was a party of looters.

Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur, who has been voicing displeasure over choice of candidates, finds himself at the receiving end of a sting operation. While a video apparently shows a man leaving a cash packet with Chhotepur, there is also an audio file that has him “accepting” that the party’s Sangrur MP, Bhagwant Mann, has a drinking problem.

On the video, Sucha Singh Chhotepur said it was made only to embarrass him. “A party supporter met me on the day party convener Arvind Kejriwal had come for a court hearing in Amritsar (on July 29). He was referred to me by two senior party leaders. He talked about general things and then tried to hand me a packet which he said was fund for the party. I refused to take it. But, while leaving, he left it on my suitcase, which I did not realise,” he has been quoted by a leading daily from Chandigarh.  “It’s now apparent that he was filming the meeting. But, was the money being given for something that I had promised to do? Was it quid pro quo? The answer is ‘no’,” he added.