Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday took a dig at the ‘SAD-BJP-AAP grand alliance’ for finding “common cause” against him over the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate targeting his son at the behest of the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely.
“The only conclusion one can derive from their common cause is that they are too scared of the Congress ahead of the assembly elections in Punjab,” he said adding that it was really amusing that “the SAD-BJP-AAP have come together to side with Jaitely against me”.
Capt Amarinder was responding to SD, BJP and AAP’s “uniformly similar statements” supporting, endorsing and celebrating the IT and ED’s summons against his son at the behest of the union Finance Minister.
The former Chief Minister maintained that while the SAD-BJP supporting and endorsing Jaitely’s action was understandable, but he was surprised and amused over the AAP’s stand on the issue. “The way the party is celebrating the ED notice to my son it looks like Jaitely proposes and AAP disposes,” he remarked.
PPCC president reminded AAP that while it has gone overboard in celebrating and supporting Jaitely’s mischievous action against his son, it had accused the same Jaitely and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of political vendetta when the CBI raided the office of Kejriwal’s Principal Secretary, Rajedra Kumar in connection with a corruption scandal last December.
Capt Amarinder reminded AAP and Kejriwal how he (Kejriwal) had tweeted then, saying, “CBI raids my office. When Narendra Modi couldn’t handle me politically, he resorts to this cowardice. Modi is a coward and a psychopath.”
“How come when a central government agency raids your office, it is vendetta and when the same government is trying to resort to similar vendetta against me, you have come in its supportIJ” he asked, while adding, “These are just double standards, so characteristic of Kejriwal and his party”.