Cases against AAP leaders will continue till polls end: Jain

Panaji, Sep 11 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has saidthe frequent police cases against its legislators and leaderswill not end until Assembly elections are over in Goa andPunjab. "Merely police case(s) do not prove anything. Do youthink police cases are sacrosanct? Why are they coming beforeGoa and Punjab election where AAP has decided to contest andwin?," senior AAP leader Satyendar Kumar Jain told PTI whileon his two-day visit to the poll-bound state. He was replying to queries on AAP leaders facingcharges of sexual harassment with MLA Amanatullah Khan beingthe latest to face such allegations. "These cases will continue till the voting day forPunjab and Goa election. If we withdraw from the poll, all ofthis would stop. Party has taken swift action against thosefound wrong. We are the only party which has taken strongaction. Has any other party done it?," the Delhi HealthMinister asked. Jain said their political rivals could not digest thefact that "we, the common man have entered into their space." "Politics was earlier space only for son ofpoliticians and anti-socials. They know that we don’t belongto their ‘biradari’ (clan)," he said. The leader was confident that there would be no impacton the impression about AAP in the minds of voters despitesuch tactics. "A similar campaign was launched months before Delhielection, but you have seen the results, people chose AAP," headded. He said the party would replicate Delhi’s polyclicnicand mohalla clinic model in Goa if it is voted to power inthat state. (MORE) PTI RPS ARS BSARDS