The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to substantiate its claim that 70 per cent of Punjabis were drug addicts, saying that if this was so then a majority section of the population of Punjab, including 35 per cent women folk, were druggies.
“AAP has also repeatedly claimed that a majority section of people of Punjab support it. Does that mean that a majority section of drug addicts support AAP in PunjabIJ” asked SAD secretary general and MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa.
This was the only inference which could be drawn from the utter lies being uttered by AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and a host of other AAP leaders on the drugs issue, said Dhindsa, adding that the political greed of the party had finally got to it.
“You have been caught in your own web of deceit. Now you have to make good your implications and tell Punjabis whether out of a population of about three crore people, there were as many as 2.10 crore drug addictsIJ” Dhindsa added.
Stating that AAP and its rag tag team led by outsiders from Uttar Pradesh had proved that it could stoop down to any level to fulfil its wish to capture Punjab, Dhindsa said: “For you, Punjab is a trophy but for us it is our motherland and we feel the pain when it is defamed.”
“You even hold this against us. But please tell us, are most of our young girls and mothers also drug addictsIJ If yes, lay the facts before the people of the State. If not, at least have some shame and apologise to Punjabis for the reckless manner in which you have tarnished their image in the eyes of the world,” said Dhindsa.
Dhindsa said that the manner in which AAP had made such “hollow, false and stupid claims” on thedrug figures in Punjab had proved that the party did not have any agenda and had based its entire campaign on a pack of lies.