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CHANDIGARH, April 30: Ridiculing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claims about his Aam Aadmi Party winning 107 out of 117 seats in the 2017 elections, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today said that he (Kejriwal) was living in a fool’s paradise.
“Like the People’s Party of Punjab, the AAP will soon vanish into the thin air”, he remarked, while adding, “PPP leader Manpreet Badal still had integrity and credibility to his credit and he was the son of the soil and Kejriwal lacks in all these attributes”.
“I am surprised as why he did not claim 117 out of 117 because that could have suited and sounded much better for him”, Capt Amarinder remarked, while taunting Kejriwal’s “day dreaming”, saying, like a frog in the well he was miserably mistaken by presuming that Punjab was like Delhi and it may vote like Delhi.
The PCC president pointed out, since 2014 when the AAP won four parliamentary seats in Punjab, it had split vertically with two MPs already having revolted. Besides, the two bye-elections it contested, it forfeited the security deposit in both and after that it did not dare to contest any bye-election.
“If you have really started believing that you are going to sail on the political deadwood you have been importing from other parties, may God bless you as you are doomed and destined to drown”, the former Chief Minister told Kejriwal, adding, “no matter how much you try to polish it, deadwood will always remain deadwood only”.
Capt Amarinder said, if Kejriwal thinks that by inserting multi-page paid news supplements in Punjab’s newspapers, while spending Delhi taxpayers’ money, he can mislead or befool the Punjabis he is badly mistaken. “Punjabis are too wise to be fooled or carried away by your misleading ad-campaigns as they already know what has happened to Delhi and nobody can risk Punjab going that way”, he said.
He pointed out, compared to Rs 20 crore annual advertisement budget of Sheila Dixit’s government in Delhi, Kejriwal had allocated Rs 620 crores for advertisements. “And all that money he was spending in Punjab only to spread lies and befool people here”, he said, while remarking, “but let me tell you, you may be able to fool some people sometime, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”.
