Arvind Kejriwal can campaign for Lok Sabha polls; gets 21-day interim bail
CHANDIGARH, February 24: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president, Capt Amarinder Singh today asked the Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to come clear about the commitments he makes before the polls and later backs out saying he (Kejriwal) would be happy if he fulfils even half the promises.
Ahead of Kejriwal’s Punjab visit as part of ‘Punjab Dialogue’ aimed at preparing the party manifesto, Capt Amarinder referred to Kejriwal’s statement after becoming the Chief Minister, in which he had said it would not be bad if his (Kejriwal’s) government fulfilled about half the promises, made before the polls, in five years. (Screenshot of the news story on the subject attached)
“If your intentions are such that you really don’t mean to fulfil all the promises, then why make such promises at the first instance and befool the people?” the PCC president asked Delhi CM, while adding, “this is wilful cheating with the people that you make promises which you really don’t mean and intend to fulfil”.
Taking a dig at the AAP’s ‘Punjab Dialogue’ to “study” various issues in Punjab over next “six months” for preparing the manifesto, Capt Amarinder remarked, “it is quite natural for a party which has no roots but just a few shoots in Punjab to struggle to identify the issues”.
“If you really don’t know what are the issues and problems ailing Punjab you really don’t have any right to claim to represent Punjabis”, he told Kejriwal while adding, “if you think by bringing in half-hatched eggs from outside for the local mule ducks to hatch here, you will be badly disappointed”.
Maintaining that the ‘Punjab Dialogue’ was just a show of “political theatrics” Kejriwal and his AAP are “exclusively and characteristically” known for, Capt Amarinder pointed out, there are 12581 villages in Punjab and the party claims to be going to each and every village to seek opinion of people and find out the issues which is virtually impractical and impossible. “Do you really prepare manifestoes like that?” he asked.
“You really don’t need to visit 12581 villages to know about the problems of people as everybody everywhere knows what is ailing Punjab”, he said, adding, “that is why I have been insisting that Punjab cannot afford any new experiment with the people who have no experience, no competence, no knowledge and not even any roots in Punjab”.
