Capt takes on Jaitley on ‘majboor neta’ remark
Tuesday, 25/03/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140325/punjab.htm#6
Amritsar : Hitting back at BJP candidate Arun Jaitley for describing him as a "majboor (helpless) neta", former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that “mazboot (strong) netas" did not go begging for constituencies to realise their secret ambitions.”
He asked Jaitley if he was as "mazboot" as he claimed himself to be, why then did it take him 40 years to find a constituency to contest the elections. "Strong leaders don’t use the backdoor to enter Parliament. It is you who is helpless and not me.
“I understand your ambitions to somehow get elected to the Lok Sabha, but I am sorry to tell you that you chose a wrong constituency by trusting a man like Parkash Singh Badal who has simply used you to get rid of Navjot Sidhu,” he said.
Amarinder accused Jaitley of double standards. He said while Jaitley criticised his senior party colleague Jaswant Singh for insisting on contesting from his home constituency Barmer, "you have come to contest from Amritsar of which you know nothing."
The former Chief Minister reiterated the charge that Jaitley was a “pseudo-Punjabi and a rank outsider”.
He said there was nothing wrong in contesting from anywhere in the country but one must not “deceive” voters.
