Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to come clean on the serious allegations leveled against him by the party leader Sucha Singh Chhotepur that he scornfully denigrated Sikh religion.
Capt Amarinder also sought a probe by the Central Government into the alleged CIA funding of the NGO, Parivartan that Kejriwal ran, while in service, along with Manish Sisodia, who is now his Deputy Chief Minister in Delhi.
He questioned Kejriwal’s double standards by pointing out, while he did not even react to the revelations made by the AAP National Council member Pavitar Singh that Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak demanded `50 lakh from him to allot Phillaur Assembly ticket to his wife, he took no time to malign Chhotepur just because he had accepted donation from a party volunteer.
“Why not apply same yardstick on Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak who have been accused on record by one of your own founding members of seeking bribeIJ” he asked Kejriwal, adding, “Or is it simply because you apply one set of rules on the Punjabi leaders and another on non-Punjabis like Singh and Pathak as also they are earning money for you”.
The former Chief Minister said he had conclusive evidence that the non-Punjabi leaders like Singh and Pathak were using scornful and derogatory language against the Sikh leaders and even making fun of their religious symbols, like saying that the Sikhs have their brains in their beards. Besides, he added, Kejriwal has also been heard poking fun at the Punjabi and Sikh leaders and there was grave resentment among the local cadres. He said, he will release the evidence in due course of time.
Amarinder alleged that Parivartan, the NGO Kejriwal ran while being a member of the Indian Revenue Service, along with Sisodia was funded by the Ford Foundation, which in turn was supported by the CIA. He said the probe must establish as how he could run an NGO while in Government service and that too, whose funding was very suspicious as CIA is not known to do any charity.