Partapur (Punjab). Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday accused the BSP leadership of stabbing the SC community in the back by “selling” the party to the Shiromani Akali Dal. Channi also criticized the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and dubbed it the modern-day East India Company, which aims to “plunder state property”.
Taking a dig at Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Channi said that it no longer represents the ideology of its founder Kanshi Ram. Channi alleged that its leadership had stabbed the SC community in the back by selling the party to the Akali Dal. He alleged that the BSP sold 15 of the 20 seats allotted to it to the Akali Dal.
He said the BSP leadership has made itself a ‘slave’ of the Akali Dal. The SAD has forged an alliance with the BSP for the assembly elections to be held in Punjab next year. Under the seat-sharing arrangement, the Mayawati-led party (BSP) will contest 20 of the 117 assembly seats in Punjab, while the SAD will contest the rest. Hitting out at AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister challenged him to explain why the people of Punjab should believe in him while the “people” who were with him do not believe in him.
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He claimed that three out of four AAP MPs elected in 2014 have left the party and 11 out of 20 MLAs who were elected in 2017 have also left. The Chief Minister said that Kejriwal does not have any basic knowledge about the state, due to which he does not know that every youth in Punjab has to do various tasks every day to run his household.
Channi said that Kejriwal does not know how to milk the cow, what does he know about the problems of the state. Channi said that he himself has faced difficulties, so he is well aware of the problems of the common man. Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar urged people not to vote by falling into “malicious” campaigning by any party. Congress general secretary Harish Chaudhary hit out at the Akali, BJP and AAP leadership, accusing them of working against the interest of the state. (agency)