The wordy duel between former Congress leader Jagmeet Singh Brar and Harcharan Bains, Advisor to the Chief Minister, Punjab got hot, when Brar accused Bains of using fake Twitter account to generate support for him on the social media.
Refuting the charge, Bains said that he is not concerned with the re-tweets on his comments, but Brar should reply to his tweets instead of making accusations about the people, whom he doesn’t even know.
Bains said, “Brar is a senior leader of Punjab and I hold him in high esteem, but when he makes efforts to find a place in a political outfit like AAP, it hurts me, and that is why I tweeted on his account.”
Responding to Bains, Brar said “I don’t need the advise of a paid Akali advisor let him advise those he works for – I will not respond to a liar and troll.”
He added “They are paying sportsmen & singers to lie in the ‘Don’t Defame Punjab’ campaign since Udta Punjab was released — the people of Punjab won’t be fooled, and they cannot wish away the tears of mothers who have lost their sons to their drugs with paid lies.”
On Bains’s allegation that he and AAP were on the same side he said “Both AAP and I have the same issues and share a common ideology of saving Punjab from the Akali Congress fixed match system – so if we agree on some points that is obvious.”
He rubbished Bains’s claims that he was desperate to join AAP by saying “I have not approached them and they have not approached me – I have said this a 100 times, if Bains stops lying and reads the newspaper he will not ask such questions. I’m surprised that as Media Advisor to the CM he doesn’t even follow news”
He concluded by saying “Bains is paid to carry this basket of lies on his head; people are not. I was honoured with Awaaz E Punjab for speaking the truth and I will do that as long as I live, your PR and dirty tricks cannot silence the truth”.