Calling Kejriwal a “power-hungry person who cannot live without power,” Sirsa alleged that he was planning to overthrow Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.“After getting badly defeated in Delhi, he tried to convince Punjab MLAs to elect him as their leader so that he could become Chief Minister. But the MLAs flatly refused, knowing that Punjabis would oppose them if they tried such a move,” he said.He accused AAP of using Punjab’s resources to bolster Kejriwal’s image.“To show Kejriwal as a messiah, Punjab’s resources are being wasted. Bhagwant Mann must answer—who is the Chief Minister, Mann or Kejriwal? When AAP lost the Delhi elections, I had already warned that Kejriwal would attempt this. That is why Punjab’s MLAs were summoned to Delhi,” Sirsa stated.He further criticised the AAP government for its failure to tackle key issues in Punjab over the past three years.“For three years, AAP ignored issues like drugs, corruption, and law and order. Now they want to act as if they have suddenly woken up. The message they are trying to send is that Mann has failed. They want to make it seem like Mann could not handle the law and order situation, the drug problem, and corruption. Now, Kejriwal and Sisodia have arrived, and only then has the work begun,” Sirsa claimed.Dismissing rumours of a possible BJP alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Sirsa clarified that his party would contest elections independently.“We contested the 2022 Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections alone in Punjab. We will continue to fight alone in the future,” he asserted.
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