National convener of AAP Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh is contesting polls from lambi not to defeat Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal but to help him win the seat.
“The captain (Amarinder Singh) is fighting from lambi to help Parkash Singh Badal win the seat and not to defeat him. Basically, he is not fighting against Badal but (doing so) to cut anti-Badal votes.”
Describing Amarinder’s move as “back stabbing” Punjab’s people and “shameful”, he said, “When there is so much anger against Badals in Punjab, the captain shook hands with them. He has betrayed and back stabbed people of the State.” The Delhi Chief Minister alleged that a deal had been struck between Amarinder and Badal under a “tacit understanding”. “Some persons who are very close to the Captain met me today and told me that a deal has been struck between him and Badal,” Kejriwal said in a video message.
“(Parkash Singh) Badal has requested the captain to fight polls from lambi to cut anti-Badal votes,” he alleged. Kejriwal claimed that Badal will be defeat in his seat by AAP’s lambi candidate Jarnail Singh.
“If you wanted to contest then why you did not announce this two months backIJ You made announcement (to contest from lambi) just 10 days before polls,” he said. Kejriwal said if Amarinder really wanted to defeat Badal then he should have stuck to lambi and not decide to fight polls from a second constituency, Patiala (Urban).