SAD today termed the visit of Aam Aadmi Party Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Punjab as "drama" aimed to "score some political points".
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Secretary and Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema said it was surprising that when everyone is denouncing the violence in Haryana and expressing solidarity with the people affected by it, Kejriwal didn't get time to visit the affected people in his home state.
"It was Kejriwal's duty to visit his home state but he preferred the one in which elections are due next year which proved heights of his hypocrisy," Cheema said, adding this was not the first time when his "thinking has been exposed."
After the attack on Pathankot airbase, Kejriwal reached Punjab to meet the kin of the martyred Subedar Major Fateh Singh and Havildar Kulwant Singh and also gave cheque of Rs 2 lakh each family which was a good gesture, he said.
But it is surprising that he didn't get the time to visit Garud Commando Gursewak Singh's family in Ambala district, again his home district, as there are no elections due in Haryana, Cheema alleged.
In the last session of Delhi Assembly, on a query of AAP MLA Alka Lamba, it was informed that 402 persons have died of extreme cold conditions in the national capital, the SAD leader said.
It was strange that AAP government could not provide quilts to the needy who died due to extreme winter conditions, but the Delhi Chief Minister is distributing cheques of Rs 50,000 to the victims of different incidents in Punjab because elections are due here, he said.
SAD also dared Kejriwal to participate in a debate on development done by him in Delhi with that done by the SAD-BJP government in Punjab.
Senior SAD leaders and party MPs Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Balwinder Singh Bhundur said the Delhi Chief Minister should list his achievements as well as tell the people of Punjab what social welfare measures he has taken.
"What we have learnt from your massive Rs 532 crore advertising blitzkrieg is that you opened one dispensary to fulfil the your promise of augmenting the health sector in Delhi," they said in a statement.
