Suspended AAP MPs want Kejriwal to apologise
Sunday, 28/02/2016
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PATIALA: Hitting out at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the two suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs — Dr Dharamvira Gandhi and Harinder Singh Khalsa — on Saturday dared him to act against them and claimed that Kejriwal in a bid to grab power had shattered the dreams of AAP volunteers in Punjab.
Responding to Kerjiwal’s interview to HT in which he had asked the suspended Punjab MPs to apologise, Dr Gandhi and Khalsa, said: “It’s Kejriwal who needs to apologise to us and AAP volunteers. He has suppressed everyone’s voice by creating a high command culture in the party that was floated for “Swaraj”. “Why should we apologise? We have done no wrong,” they said. CHANDIGARH: Asking Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to first enquire about the plight of people in the national capital, Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday said the former should be in Delhi instead of roaming in Punjab chasing the illusive dream of ruling the border state.
Asserting that it was so characteristic of Kejriwal either to put the blame on someone else or to run away from the situation, Amarinder pointed out that there is no water supply in most parts of Delhi for the past 10 days after the Jat stir in Haryana.
“Instead of standing with his people who voted him to power and trying to find solutions to their pressing problems, he is trying to sell false dreams in Punjab”, said Captain in a statement.
“Why his heart didn’t bleed for thousands of Punjabis who were selectively targeted in violence and their properties also damaged in Haryana,” he asked. “Leave aside visiting them and offering them any assurance, you didn’t even bother to issue a word of consolation for them and not even to those women who were allegedly molested and raped,” Amarinder told Kejriwal, while adding nor did he condemn the violence against the Punjabis in his native state of Haryana.
Questioning the very intentions of the Delhi chief minister in providing job to family members of Abohar Dalit youth Bhim Tank who was allegedly killed by SAD men, Captain asked him as to how many other such victims has he ever visited and offered similar jobs. “Did you offer anything similar to the family members of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit boy who committed suicide in Hyderabad University,” Captain asked Kejriwal.
Captain asked Kejriwal as why he did not bother to visit the Pathankot terror attack victim from Ambala Gursewak Singh. Advising Kejriwal to better focus his attention on Delhi, Amarinder said: “People neither forgive nor forget. So better beware against taking them for granted as they can throw you out anytime and the situation is building fast towards that end as you have badly failed their expectations in Delhi”. “Leave Punjab to Punjabis as they know their job pretty well,” added Captain.
CHANNI QUESTIONS DELHI CM’S PERFORMANCE
Questioning the performance of Arvind Kejriwal as the Delhi chief minister, Punjab Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday cautioned people of Punjab about the dreams the AAP convener was trying to sell them.
“Earlier, Sukhbir Singh Badal used the same marketing strategy. Now Kejriwal is using it to fool people of Punjab. Both stand exposed. Kejriwal is visiting the families of the farmers who committed suicide besides those of drug addicts. What vision he carries to address this problem, he should tell the people of Punjab. Where was he when this problem was multiplying and taking lives of youth under the politico-police nexus,” Channi said. The CLP leader said the Delhi CM was now talking of tackling the agrarian crisis within no time, forgetting that the situation had been developing over the years and it needed a holistic approach.
