Union Minister and SAD MP from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday accused Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal of indulging in “politics of fraud” and not “politics of penance” after he washed utensils at the Golden Temple to seek apology over the youth manifesto controversy.
“But people of Punjab will teach him (a lesson). People of Delhi are also realizing what a big mistake they have made. He made promises to people of Delhi and has not been able to fulfil them,” said Harsimrat outside the Parliament.
Terming Kejriwal’s regime as a “failure”, she said: “He is a totally failure in Delhi. I have never seen Chief Minister of a state going to another state to make a government over there and not serving the people of his state.”
Asked whether SAD was feeling jittery because of the presence of Kejriwal in Punjab, she said: “It is not so. Kejriwal cannot make any dent in SAD’s support base. A man who does not know the culture of Punjab, language of Punjab, will be wiped off badly...He does not know how to respect the people of Punjab. He is doing politics of fraud in Delhi.”
Responding to a query whether Kejriwal’s presence in Punjab was a challenge for the SAD-BJP alliance, she said: “The alliance will score a hat-trick in the Assembly elections thanks to AAP and the Congress.”