Accusing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of acting as Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s ‘paid agent’, Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday ridiculed his attempt to once again rake up the “fabricated and politically-motivated” charges of existence of Swiss bank accounts in the names of his (Amarinder’s) family members by releasing “old and unauthenticated” documents.
The former Chief Minister questioned Kejriwal over using an election rally platform in Bathinda to recycle and release old documents alleging Swiss accounts of his family members, instead of facing the media on the issue.
Capt Amarinder said it was more than evident that the AAP leader had no answers to the questions the media would definitely have raised following the release of the old documents. That alone could explain his decision to release the documents at a public rally, where he could not be questioned, he said.
He said that the alleged account numbers which the AAP leader says are held by his family members were the same old numbers which his colleague Ashish Khetan had released in March 2016, and which he had already showed to be a sham.
Punjab Congress president rejected as baseless and nothing but a publicity stunt the re-release of documents that had no foundation, and whose veracity even the central and state governments had failed to prove despite having the entire official machinery at their disposal.
Alleging an election-motivated nexus between the BJP-SAD combine and the AAP, the Punjab Congress president pointed out that the attempt to malign him by implicating his family members falsely in the matter had begun before the parliamentary elections.
“Bereft of any serious plank to fight the elections in Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched a groundless tirade against my family members at an election rally in Barmer,” he said, adding that Jaitley had then picked it up for his election campaign in Amritsar.