Ridiculing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to refrain from indulging in politics of the lowest order and mud-slinging, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh made it clear to AAP’s national convener and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal that his meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was exclusively on one point agenda to discuss issues related to national security being the Home Minister of the border State facing a hostile neighbour.
“Thus it was my foremost responsibility to apprise the Union Government on developments in the State. And I would not hesitate to meet the Prime Minister and the Home Minister whenever issues of internal security are fanned by neighbouring hostile nations,” said Capt Amarinder.
Ridiculing the allegations leveled by AAP leader as absolutely baseless, politically-motivated, and erroneous that he met the Union Home Minister with regard to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) cases thrust upon his family, Capt Amarinder lambasted AAP for attempting to unleash a campaign based on lies and deceit.
Clarifying that there was no case filed by the ED against him, he said that there was, however, a case filed by ED against his son Raninder Singh which has been going on for more than a decade that too under FEMA which at most is a civil or fiscal matter.
The High Court has also stayed all the earlier incorrect Income Tax assessment orders served on his son, he said adding that as a measure of desperation, the IT Department has now vindictively targeted him, along with his whole family and not even left out his minor grandchildren by sending them notices under the Prevention of Black Money Act which were also being legally dealt with.
“Only a political novice and no do-gooder like Kejriwal could jump to such conclusions whereas the real picture is starkly different from what is being painted by Delhi Chief Minister who should not cross the limits of decency,” he said.
Referring to the seizure of 11 Arges-84 hand grenades dropped by a drone launched from Pakistan, Capt Amarinder said that it was his bounden duty to apprise the Union Government about it so as to enable the State and Central security agencies to work in tandem in formulating a concrete strategy to foil the nefarious designs of Pakistan which always posed a major threat to state law and order as well as country’s integrity and sovereignty.
“Numerous such incidents actually go unreported in the media as they are not made public to avoid creating panic among the populace. However, it is my bounded duty as the Chief Minister of the State to keep the Government of India abreast in such developments at all times,” he added.
At the same time, Capt Amarinder dared Kejriwal to come clean on his dubious stand on the draconian farm laws, which were earlier notified by his Government earlier and now he is shedding crocodile tears over this sensitive issue by showing fake sympathy with the farmers, which is nothing but sheer theatrics on his part.