Farmers Movement Archive

Don’t change colours like a chameleon: Capt to Kejriwal

Chandigarh: Ridiculing the allegations levelled by the AAP leader as absolutely baseless and politically motivated that he met Union home minister Amit Shah with regard to the ED cases against his family, Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for attempting to unleash a campaign based on lies and deceit. Asking him to refrain from indulging in politics of the “lowest order and mudslinging”, Capt Amarinder on Tuesday clarified to AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal that his meeting with Shah was exclusively on one point agenda to discuss issues related national security being the home minister of the border state facing a hostile neighbour. Amarinder said it was his foremost responsibility to appraise the Centre on the developments in the state and he would not hesitate to meet the Prime Minister and the Union home minister whenever issues of internal security were fanned by neighbouring hostile nations. He clarified that there was no case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him. There was, however, a case filed by ED against his son Raninder Singh, which had been going on for more than a decade that too under FEMA, which at most is a civil or fiscal matter. The Punjab and Haryana high court had also stayed all the earlier incorrect income tax (I-T) assessment orders served on his son. As a measure of desperation, the I-T department had now vindictively targeted him, along with his whole family and not even left out his minor grandchildren by sending them notices under the black money act, which were also being legally dealt with. “Only a political novice and no do-gooder like Kejriwal could jump to such conclusions whereas the real picture is starkly different from what is being painted by him,” said Amarinder, adding, “The Delhi CM who should not cross the limits of decency.” “You just joined agitating farmers cursorily to score brownie points while you and your party is remotely concerned about their woes,” alleged Amarinder, asking the Delhi CM “not to change colours like a chameleon”. He said in view of seizure of 11 hand grenades dropped by a drone launched from Pakistan five days after they busted a drone module with international linkages in Amritsar Rural district, it was his bounden duty to apprise the Centre about it so as to enable the state and central security agencies to work in tandem in formulating a concrete strategy to foil the nefarious designs of Pakistan. Amarinder “dared” Kejriwal to come clean on his dubious stand on the draconian farm laws, which were earlier notified by his government earlier and now he was shedding crocodile tears over this sensitive issue by showing fake sympathy with the farmers, which was “nothing but sheer theatrics on Kejriwal’s part”. He described Kejriwal as a “hypocrite of the highest order and his rag-tag bunch of camp followers who were solely eyeing on the 2022 assembly polls in Punjab”.

The Times of India

2020-12-23

Chandigarh