Jaitley a guest from New Delhi: Amarinder
Wednesday, 02/04/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140402/punjab.htm#9
Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh has revived the “outsider” debate by referring his BJP rival Arun Jaitley as “our esteemed guest from New Delhi” in his Facebook post.
Taking a dig at BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s thumping his “56-inch chest”, describing it as “chauvinistic pride and shameless arrogance”, he said: “This election season has thrown up many xenophobes, fascists and pseudo-nationalists camouflaging as ultra-nationalists beating their ‘56 inch’ chest with chauvinistic pride and shameless arrogance.”
Attacking Jaitley, he said: “Not surprisingly, our esteemed guest from New Delhi subscribes to no different views.”
Referring to Jaitley rejecting the suggestion that Modi must apologise for the 2002 riots, he said: “This betrays an intoxicated arrogance that seems to have taken the better of him.”
Amarinder targeted Jaitley for choosing not to answer his questions on the issue of Punjabi farmers in Gujarat being evicted from their land.
In his second Facebook post, he wrote: “Usually our esteemed guest from New Delhi is prompt in answering all my queries in his campaign diary. However, today he has conveniently chosen to ignore the all-important question about Punjabi farmers in Gujarat who are being thrown out of the state that he has represented in the Rajya Sabha for the past 14 years.
“I don’t mind giving him the benefit of doubt for his ignorance. For, he seems too busy with too big issues beyond Amritsar and beyond Punjab, which don’t seem to figure anywhere on his priority list,” he said.
Meanwhile, Congress legislators and leaders from Amritsar today blamed Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia for “betraying and sabotaging” development in Amritsar “only to satisfy his bloated ego and to not let local Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu succeed.”
In a joint statement, legislators OP Soni, Sukh Sarkaria and Raj Kumar Verka said after Majithia became an MLA in 2007, he started a battle of one-upmanship.
“This hit development works in the Amritsar constituency,” they claimed.
The Congress leaders said it was now time for the people of Amritsar to “put Majithia in the dock for sabotaging development in the holy city”.
