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Punjab CM, AAP playing cheap politics: Capt Amarinder
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday accused chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of playing “cheap
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday accused chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of playing “cheap politics” by linking his party’s state in-charge Kamal Nath with 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Addressing a press conference, Amarinder made it clear that the Congress was not going to be cowed down by the “fake and fictitious allegations” against its leaders by people such as Kejriwal, Badal or Phoolka. “Will Phoolka, Badal and Kejriwal decide who is guilty and who is not?” he asked.
He said Nath was the general secretary in-charge of Delhi in 1998 when Sheila Dixit formed the government. The local bodies were also swept by the Congress under Nath’s stewardship. “No Sikh in Delhi ever complained against him, except Phoolka, who has his own axe to grind,” he added.
The former CM added that Phoolka and his patron Kejriwal “have mastered the art of mudslinging” and levelling false allegations against people and then trying to getaway with everything.
He also said the Congress general secretary was exonerated by the Justice Nanavati Commission, which had been constituted by the BJP-led NDA government to probe into the riots.
