Kejriwal’s Speech Shows SAD-BSP Heading For 2/3rd Majority: SAD
Chandigarh, Feb 8: Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday described Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s direct appeal to Akali workers as a “surrender speech” by the AAP leader and thanked him for accepting that his moka call has been rejected by Punjabis, forcing him to beg at the doors of his rival soldiers to save him. The party also reminded Punjabis that like Kejriwal, the British had also sought only a moka saying that the Indian people had tried different rulers and the British should be given an opportunity (moka) to give the Indians the same facilities which the British people got in their country.
“We remained slaves for over 200 years and lost Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Khalsa empire. You don’t expect Punjabis to repeat the same mistake,” said Harcharan Bains, Principal Advisor to SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal. Addressing media persons here on Tuesday afternoon, Bains also released an “open letter to AAP’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann”, asking the latter to clarify his stand on Kejriwal’s decision to ban Punjabi in Delhi schools, his case in SC for hefty fine on Punjab farmers for stubble burning and for not including Sikh martial arts like Gatka in the sports quota list in Delhi.
He also asked Bhagwant Mann to clarify his stand on the total exclusion of Punjabis from AAP government in Delhi while seeking a moka from Punjabis here. “If the latter would ask Kejriwal why there was not a single Sikh or Punjabi in the Kejriwal cabinet or among chairmen or directors of Delhi boards or even in senior civil service posts.” However, Bains said that both Kejriwal and his subedar Raghav Chadha had finally felt the heat of Punjabis anger against them for their refusal to speak Punjabi even in Punjab. “Now they started putting a pretence of speaking Punjabi using teleprompters. But we congratulate Punjabis for forcing these Punjabi haters into submission.” In his letter, the Akali leader asked Mann why he remained quiet even while Kejriwal government had filed a case in Supreme Court to snatch Punjab’s river waters from Punjabis. He ridiculed Kejriwal’s promise to Akali workers to implement his promises for them also if elected.
“This guy has been an IRS officer and CM for ten years and he still doesn’t know that all government policies are always for every citizen regardless of political affiliation. Is free power in Punjab only for Akali farmers? Don’t AAP and Congress workers get benefits of Parkash Singh Badal govt’s schemes of Shagun, pension, meritorious schools, surplus power, free power units to economically poor and to Dalits. Do only Akalis travel on four lane or six lane expressways built by Sukhbir Singh Badals vision and efforts ? Is Kejriwal banned from using airports all of which were built during S Badal’s tenure ? This ex-bureaucrat is either too ignorant or too hypocritical to be a CM. He thinks that giving benefit of government policies to those with rival political views is a favour on them.”
