CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday made it clear that his meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was exclusively on one point agenda to discuss issues related national security. Being the Home Minister of the border state facing a hostile neighbour, it was his foremost responsibility to apprise the Union government on developments in the state, he said, adding that he would not hesitate to meet the Prime Minister and the Home Minister whenever issues of internal security are fanned by neighbouring hostile nations.
Ridiculing the allegations levelled by AAP convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as absolutely baseless, politically motivated and erroneous that he met the Union Home Minister with regard to the ED cases thrust upon his family, Captain Amarinder Singh lambasted the AAP “for attempting to unleash a campaign based on lies and deceit”. He clarified that there was no case filed by the ED against him. There was, however, a case filed by ED against his son, Raninder Singh, which has been going on for more than a decade, that too under FEMA which at most is a civil/fiscal matter.
The High Court has also stayed all the earlier incorrect Income Tax assessment orders served on his son, Captain added. As a measure of desperation, the IT Department has now vindictively targeted him, along with his whole family and not even left out his minor grandchildren by sending them notices under the Prevention of Black Money Act which were also being legally dealt with, Capt Amarinder said.
The CM said that only a political novice and no do-gooder like Kejriwal could jump to such conclusions, whereas the real picture is starkly different from what is being painted by Delhi CM who should not cross the “limits of decency”.
Captain Amarinder dared Kejriwal to come clean on his stand on the new farm laws, saying that these were notified by his government earlier and now he is shedding crocodile tears over this sensitive issue by showing fake sympathy with the farmers, which is nothing but sheer theatrics on Kejriwal’s part. Taking on the AAP rank and file, he described the Delhi CM as a “hypocrite of highest order”.
“You just joined agitating farmers cursorily to score brownie points while you and your party are remotely concerned about their woes. Had you a bit of concern for the beleaguered farmers, your party should have held demonstrations against the Central government especially in Delhi itself”, asked Amarinder Singh.