Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday came down heavily on the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal for drawing comparison of the party with ISIS — a terror outfit, and terming its leaders as radicals and Khalistanis.
“Sukhbir seemed to have completely lost his mind after seeing massive ground swell in favour of AAP in Punjab and sensing his imminent defeat in 2017 assembly polls,” said party Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur.
Chhotepur, while referring to Sukhbir’s interview in an English daily, said: “Though Sukhbir denies his obsession with AAP but during his entire interview, he talks nothing else but about AAP. Sukhbir looks visibly scared. It also shows how AAP is giving relentless nightmares and sleeplessness nights to Sukhbir.”
“Sukhbir's attempt to compare AAP with ISIS not only exhibited his impoverish mindset but also showed how he has been constantly living in the fear of AAP that would soon uproot him and his family’s ten-year-old corrupt regime from Punjab,” he said.
Chhotepur said that AAP is the party of common man unlike SAD which is being run by the Badal family like a private limited company.
“SAD is all about Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Badal, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Bikram Majithia and Adesh Partap Singh Kairon. Rest of the leaders in SAD don't even matter to the Badal family,” said Chhotepur adding that if Sukhbir was not born as son to Parkash Singh Badal he could not have been even a councilor in a municipal committee.
Chhotepur also lashed out at Sukhbir for maligning the non-resident Indians (NRIs) by dubbing them as radicals or Khalistanis. “Sukhbir is only venting out his frustration at the Punjab’s NRIs after being summarily rejected by them. Only a year ago, Badals used to hold NRI Sammelans to woo them. But ever since Punjab’s NRIs have turned against Badals, they have suddenly become either radicals or Khalistanis for the Badals,” said Chhotepur.