Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: AAP national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal called the Congress government in Punjab the “most corrupt and hypocritical government” in the state’s history and said CM Charanjit Singh Channi had made a mockery of the government.
Addressing a rally at Lambi, constituency of former CM Parkash Singh Badal and home turf of the Badals, Kejriwal said that in the upcoming Assembly polls, Punjab should decide whether it needs a puppet government that can play “gulli-danda” or a pro-people government that builds schools and hospitals. “You have given opportunities to the Congress for 25 years and SAD-BJP for 20 years, and tried their governance many times. Give us (AAP) a chance in 2022,” he said.
Commenting on the ongoing feuds within the Congress, Kejriwal said, “Navjot Sidhu is fighting CM Channi, Sunil Jakhar is fighting Sidhu, Partap Singh Bajwa is fighting Jakhar. In fact, they are all fighting to plunder Punjab because they know the Congress government is on its way out.”
Kejriwal accused the Congress government of making hollow announcements every other day. “Channi says the price of sand has been reduced, electricity has been made cheaper and cable rates have been cut. In reality, people are not getting any benefits,” he alleged.
Pointing that Channi has been invoking his SC origins everywhere, the Delhi CM said, “Kejriwal is a member of every family in the SC community. He provides free education to every child of the community, the best treatment and free coaching to become officers.”
Addressing the same rally, AAP’s Punjab president and MP Bhagwant Mann targeted Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal and said, “Badals have buses, planes, hotels and many other businesses. But now, to mislead people, they are doing the drama of being farmers.”
Mann said Congress is again asking for five years by giving an account of 80 days, “but who will give the account of four-and-a-half years of Amarinder Singh’s rule in which Channi and other Congressmen were ministers?”, he asked.
