Punjab Congress president Capt. Amarinder Singh on Monday lashed out at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for wasting the Delhi taxpayers’ money on newspaper advertisements in Punjab.
Punjab Congress president Capt. Amarinder Singh on Monday lashed out at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for wasting the Delhi taxpayers’ money on newspaper advertisements in Punjab.
“Kejriwal is suffering from chronic megalomaniac obsessions,” Capt. Singh remarked, referring to Mr Kejriwal’s 300-word letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which he got published as full page advertisements in the Punjab newspapers.
He also questioned Mr Kejriwal’s credentials on honesty and integrity. “You are abusing your position and misusing the public money to promote and project yourself as someone who actually you are not,” he told the Delhi chief minister, while asserting this was no less than cheating and fraud with the people of Delhi, whose money was being wasted in advertisements in Punjab, with an eye on the state’s upcoming Assembly elections.
Questioning the purpose of publishing the letter to the Prime Minister, Capt. Singh said, “it was more aimed at scoring some brownie points with people of Punjab on the eve of elections, than asserting your position with the PM, who would have read your letter in any case.”
“It is natural for a Prime Minister to read a letter written to him by a chief minister, so where was the need to waste public money using newspapers with full page advertisements as the medium,” he pointed out, asking, “Or do you fear that the Prime Minister or for that matter nobody else takes you seriously, hence the need for full page advertisements to over-emphasise your point and grab his attention.” f“More than seeking justice for the 1984 victims, as he claims, which he could have done in a better way without wasting public money and newsprint space, Mr Kejriwal is trying to pronounce and proclaim himself as the new messiah as if ordained by divine decree,” the Punjab PCC president said, asserting that the purpose of Mr Kejriwal’s advertisements was too obvious, to seek public attention for petty partisan and electoral interests.
