Kejriwal doing drama: Sukhbir Badal

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Press Trust of India Ludhiana
Last Updated : Feb 26 2016 | 7:02 PM IST
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today lashed out at Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal describing his five day ongoing visit to the state as "Nautanki" (drama).
"Kejriwal did not bother to visit Haryana where he belongs to when the state is burning because of Jat reservation agitation," Sukhbir said adding in Punjab he is "shedding crocodile tears" at the houses of some farmers who committed suicides years ago.
He alleged the Kejriwal government has "totally failed" in Delhi where they had only spent or earmarked crores of money for self advertisement programmes.
Kejriwal had promised to install 2 lakh CCTV cameras for safety of the city there but had installed only two hundred of them, Sukhbir alleged.
"Now he is trying to be fool the people of Punjab in the name of Aam Admi of whom he was least bothered," Sukhbir said.
Sukhbir said that he was neither "panicky" nor did he "lack confidence" in suggesting that Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal would lead the Akali-BJP alliance at the next state assembly elections and form the government.
"Working under Badal's leadership was like a lesson at Harvard University," Sukhbir said.
He also scotched all rumours of any break in the Akali-BJP alliance and described it as as an alliance for the state which would never see any divorce.
In Chandigarh, SAD Secretary and Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema alleged that the language used by Kejriwal against the Akalis is "highly derogatory, condemnable and amounts to a personal attack" on each and every worker of the Shiromani Akali Dal.
Had Kejriwal been little bit aware of the Akali/Sikh history he would not have "committed this blunder" of calling the "real lions" as "gidders" (wolfs), he said.
Cheema told Kejriwal to stop using such "insulting, abusive and inflammatory" language and urged him to tender an unconditional public apology.
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Sukhbir alleged said that Kejriwal is walking in the footsteps of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and is "misguiding" the people.
He said that like Rahul Gandhi who goes to the houses of poor and behaves like a commoner, Kejriwal is doing the same but the fact is that he has "miserably failed" as Chief Minister of Delhi.
Sukhbir alleged that Arvind Kejriwal is indulging in "misleading" advertising campaign which is funded by public money.
He claimed that for his "misleading" advertising campaign, Kejriwal has spent more than Rs 532 crore from the public exchequer.
Sukhbir said that before "befooling" the Punjabis, Kejriwal should first "fulfil" his promises made with the people of Delhi.
He alleged that instead of fulfilling his promises with people of Delhi, Kejriwal is "misleading" Punjabis with his malicious agenda.
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First Published: Feb 26 2016 | 7:02 PM IST

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