Amarinder rejects Kejriwal's charges on posters issue

Punjab Congress Chief Amarinder Singh today rubbished Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's charges against him over the circulation of AAP leaders' posters along with Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale, accusing the latter of being a "congenital and compulsive liar".
"Given the fact that he (Kejriwal) is a congenital and compulsive liar, I am not surprised over his backing out himself and blaming me for what his party has done," Amarinder said in a statement issued here.
"It is a classic case of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds," the former Chief Minister said, adding, "first they (AAP) circulated posters asking people to celebrate Bhindrawale's birthday and when it boomeranged on them, Kejriwal tried to back out in his characteristic fugitive manner he is well known about".

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind yesterday had rejected Amarinder's allegation that his party AAP had nexus with Khalistanis.
"It is Amarinder who is doing this. He is doing photo shopping--of juxtaposing our photos with Bindrawale-and putting them on posters," Kejriwal had said yesterday in the national capital.
Amarinder dared the Aam Aadmi Party to lodge an FIR and get the matter investigated and if it (AAP) does not do so, he will get it done after the Congress forms the government in Punjab.

"We will not allow them to play the double game of stealthily playing the extremist agenda and publicly denying it later," he warned.

The PCC president said if the AAP was really not behind the posters issue then why did the party convener in Punjab, Sucha Singh Chhotepur backed out from filing a complaint.
"You have always tried to survive on rumours by first flashing a rumour and then backing out", he said while adding, "we are yet to hear any truth from you since you came into the public life".
"I think we are over-rating Sidhu, he has been a
cricketer, but nobody remembers his cricketing days... secondly, he has been doing cricket commentary, so people know him little bit from there. Thirdly, they know him from this foolish programme which he does (on TV) where he tries to make everyone laugh, that is all that they know of him.

That does not make you a leader of a state. If you think a comedian like Sidhu or a comedian like Bhagwant Mann or Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi (both AAP leaders) are the right people for Punjab, then God help Punjab," Singh said.
About the Sidhu-led 'fourth front', Singh said he does not see any threat from it and claimed that the anti-incumbency votes will go to the Congress.
"No matter what they (Akalis) try this time, their ship has sunk. The Akalis have no chance whatsoever, they are a finished commodity. Their story is over for now," he said.
Training guns on Kejriwal, who recently said that he will stay put in Punjab till the ruling Badals are sent to jail for alleged acts of omission and commission, Singh said "first let him (Kejriwal) talk about his own corruption."

"As a government officer (former IRS officer) how come he never moved out of Delhi for 24 years whereas other officers get routinely transferred out. Kejriwal started an NGO and it takes funding from the Ford Foundation. I am asking this question to Kejriwal that as a government officer how were you involved in this NGO, who gave you permission to have the foreign funds, isn't this corruption?"
To a question, he said "Kejriwal must be investigated. You are not allowed to stay for more than 4-5 years at one place, how come he stayed back in Delhi for 24 years."

Comparing the AAP National Convener with the fictional character of Dr Jekyll, who had an alternative personality -- Mr Hyde, from an English novel, he said, "In the same manner he (Kejriwal) says one thing at one time and another thing the next time. Kejriwal is a confused man."
"Kejriwal is a liar. He should first take care of Delhi," he added.
On the feasibility of the debt waiver in a state like Punjab, which has a precarious financial condition, he said it is not very difficult for the governments to generate resources "if there is a will to do something".

Asserting that Congress, unlike AAP, was serious about debt waiver, the PCC president said his party would move a private member's bill in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha seeking debt waiver for the farmers.
Replying to a question about his having described the AAP manifesto released yesterday as a "carbon copy" of Congress' policies, he said, "Rather it is a case of political plagiarism" claiming the Kejriwal-led party had copied everything his party had promised long before.