A day after Delhi Chief Minister appeared in a Amritsar court in a defamation case, Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia challenged the AAP Convener to show moral and political courage to agree to a day-to-day hearing in the defamation suit filed against him by the Akali leader in an Amritsar court.
Majithia said it had taken just one appearance before the court to expose Kejriwal as a thorough coward and his daily boasts against senior statesmen in the country as mere nautanki.
“From a wild accuser, he has been reduced to a mere accused. The accused is now running for cover like a frightened hare. Will he like to tell the people why did he enter the court from the back door. Instead of showing the confidence to ask for speedy trial as an accused, he is seeking long gaps between hearings in this defamation case in which he faces certain jail," Majithia said.
The Punjab Minister added, “This must have been a huge let down for volunteers who expected him to act like a hero and to throw some bombshell against me in the very first hearing. They went back badly shaken and disheartened, watching their hero pulled down from high tower to be named an accused , and literally begging for delays in proceedings in the case.”
On the statement of Kejriwal that he would put Majithia behind bars in six months, the Minister said, “Why wait for six months evenIJ You do not have to wait for that long to put me behind bars. You can achieve that goal in a matter of weeks. All you have to do is to agree to a day-to-day hearing in this case, prove your charges on drug-trade and open the doors for a court conviction against me."
In a statement, Majithia said, “But this time, I won’t let him wriggle out with this hypocrisy. I will pin him down. Only one of us will remain free and in politics now. Its either him or me.”
Majithia said that the Delhi Chief Minister had gotten into the habit playing cheap theatrical somersaults as he had been emboldened by the decency and civility shown to him by senior and respected statesmen in the country despite his wild and reckless allegations.
