Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday took a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party for always crying wolf and pleading persecution for its own faults.
“Why not have faith in courtsIJ” he asked the party while referring to party’s dharna in front of the Prime Minister’s office over the arrest of its legislator on the serious charges of molestation.
Condemning the party’s agitating and blackmailing tactics, while reacting to the protest by the AAP legislators over the arrest of one of its legislators Dinesh Mohanya for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman and slapping an elderly man, Capt Amarinder said it was a classic case of double standards and political blackmail which the AAP is best known for.
He said, while the AAP is now accusing the central government of having imposed “emergency” in Delhi and resorting to the political vendetta, just because some of its legislators have been caught on the wrong foot, the same AAP strongly defended the Enforcement Directorate notice to his son Raninder Singh, which, otherwise, was out of sheer political vendetta.
“When we said, it was a case of political vendetta, which actually it is, since Arun Jaitley wants to avenge his Amritsar defeat, they sided with him (Jaitley) and now when their MlA has been detained for serious criminal charges they are crying vendetta”, he pointed out.
Capt Amarinder asked the AAP as why it did not wait for the courts to decide on the matter. “If you really think your legislator is innocent, why you are not having faith in the courtsIJ” he asked, adding, “ultimately the matter will go to the court where nothing but the truth will prevail”.
The Congress leader said, like he has always held that no matter to what level Jaitley stoops in his attempt to implicate him and his family members, he has absolute faith in country’s judicial system, where he will come clean, why was AAP afraid of going to the court and instead trying to build up extra-judicial and extra-constitutional pressure by resorting to agitation and protest.