Delhi CM: Congress, SAD ruined households

Ahead of the crucial Punjab polls, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the state’s Congress and SAD, alleging that both the parties have “ruined” every household there through “corruption” and “drug menace”.

Mr Kejriwal in his tone and tenor indicated that drug issue in Punjab is going to be major poll plank and claimed that his party is “going to win the elections” in the state due in 2017.

“Both the Congress and SAD have through corruption and drug menace pushed the state backward, and people have lost faith. The successive governments installed in the state after Independence have ruined each and every household there,” Mr Kejriwal alleged.

The AAP leader was addressing a gathering here after launching a Punjabi video song, Ek Nasha: Nashe ke Khilaf, penned and sung by fellow AAP leader Kumar Vishwas, aimed at weaning the people of the state away from drugs and narcotics.

The video makes veiled references to Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and deputy chief minister Sukbhir Badal. Mr Kejriwal said the purpose of the video was “apolitical”, but a “broom”, the symbol of the party, was shown in the video in the end.

“You see poets like Mr Vishwas tell things through clues. And, you see what clues he has left in the video,” Mr Kejriwal said, as he took a dig at the Badal dispensation.

“But, the enthusiasm you people have shown here, we are finding the same enthusiasm in Punjab, and the AAP will win the elections there and for the next government. The issue of eliminating drug menace will be a daunting task but it won’t be impossible,” Mr Kejriwal claimed.

“Once we form the government, we will punish all those involved in running this drug network,” he said.