Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday attacked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said he will fight the “Haryanvi” from wherever he decides to contest the upcoming State Assembly polls.
“Kejriwal keeps saying that Amarinder Singh and Badal are together, he (Kejriwal, a former IRS officer) is a typical babu, who works cleverly. Kejriwal will not be allowed to come in and win the elections here and become Chief Minister of Punjab.
“He is a Haryanvi, he is a Delhiwala and I will fight him from wherever he stands. Win or lose is God's will, but I will not give him an easy chance in this,” he said here.
He also launched an unsparing attack on Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who recently floated a new political front, labelling him as a comedian.
Rejecting as rhetoric Kejriwal's vow to get the ruling Badals jailed for corruption, Singh said, “I have already shown that who can put them behind bars, I have already put them in jail (when he was CM from 2002-07). Do you think that corruption which is going on in Punjab, we will ignore itIJ We will go into every issue and wherever any irregularity and illegality is found, people will have to face the music.”
The former Punjab Chief Minister also refuted Kejriwal's allegations that he (Singh) and the Badals were playing a friendly match and that they were hand-in-glove in many things.
“Second, Kejriwal says he will send the Badals behind bars, this is all rhetoric, do you think we did it just like that! We took the matter to court and the court had put Badal and his son in jail.
“You can't just catch hold of a guy and say to put him behind bars just because I don't like him, this may be the way Akalis operate, but we don’t. It will have to be investigated and in investigations whatever emerges, we will put these people behind bars, where they belong. If they think they can get away with it then they are mistaken,” he said.