A day after Aam Aadmi Party Convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal leveled several charges against Punjab Revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia, the latter reacted saying non performing Kejriwal’s days as Delhi chief minister were now numbered.
“You will soon realise that brave Punjabis are not afraid of threats of jail terms and political vendetta and that it is you who will face jail term on charges of defamation,” he said, on Kejriwal’s assertion at Maghi Mela that his party will send Majithia and the Badals to jail after coming to power.
In a statement here, Majithia said Kejriwal, who had behaved more like a Natwar lal during his past one year tenure in Delhi, should realise that Punjabis had always risen up against oppressors and outside forces who had tried to dominate them. “Forget jail, even facing bullets is in our Punjabi blood. If Kejriwal thinks he can scare me, the SAD or the people of Punjab by such intimidatory tactics he is living in a fool’s paradise”, the minister said.
Asking Kejriwal not to count his chickens before they hatched, Majithia said he would hold up the AAP leader to every statement made on THursday. “You will have to prove what you said or face a jail term as a common criminal as per the law of the land”, he added.
Majithia said as far as he was concerned he knew Kejriwal was up to the same tricks which he had resorted to in Delhi. He said the AAP leader should know Punjabis would not tolerate such hit and run tactics.