Capt rejects AAP’s poster claim
Monday, 11/07/2016
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Fatehgarh Sahib : Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee president and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday rejected Aam Aadmi Party’s claim that the Congress had used pictures of the Golden Temple on its posters.
Talking to mediapersons after paying tributes to Fatehgarh Sahib Congress MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra’s mother Kartar Kaur, Amarinder said there was no truth behind AAP spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira’s charges against the Congress that it used pictures of the Golden Temple. He said people of the state were wise and they know the reality. “Whole of Punjab and the Punjabi community world over knows my commitment and the credentials too well to be questioned by someone like Khaira,” he said.
Khaira during a press conference in Chandigarh on Saturday had accused the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress of having used photos of the Golden Temple with party symbols on their posters.
Capt said Khaira’s move was to please Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal but Kejriwal’s policy was to use and throw away. He alleged that AAP wanted to get political mileage by hurting sentiments of people. He further said that Kejriwal had a “congenital habit of using and throwing away” people, like he did with Anna Hazare, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, and “many others”.
The PPCC president claimed that the Congress was the only option left in Punjab for the people. “It is not just anti-incumbency against the Akalis, it is a deep-rooted aversion and hostility borne out of abuse of power by them during all these years,” he maintained.
He refuted the reports of his differences with senior Congress leader Sunil Jakhar over the SYL canal issue.
