JALANDHAR: On the last day of campaigning, taking a dig at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said the leader who claims to fight the drug mafia in Punjab had tendered an unconditional apology to Bikram Singh Majithia.
“Kejriwal has been coming and going from Punjab for the last several months, claiming to change the system, to finish the drug mafia and put them behind bars. But let us remind Kejriwal that you acted like a coward by tendering an unconditional apology to Akali leader Majithia.” “Like Kejriwal is talking today to send people to jail, he used to accuse Bikram Majithia of being hand in glove with the drug mafia. Majithia filed a defamation case,” he said. “Within one year, on March 15, 2018, Arvind Kejriwal tendered an unconditional apology to Majithia saying allegations he had made against Majithia were false,” Shekhawat said while referring to Kejriwal’s apology letter to Majithia.
Even Bhagwant Mann, the party’s chief ministerial candidate now, had resigned from the state president’s post of the AAP to protest against the apology, he said.
“Can people of Punjab forget the apology Kejriwal tendered to Majithia? Can the brave, valiant and courageous Punjabis accept a coward like Kejriwal and tolerate his cowardice? Can anyone trust a man who tells wilful lies and then tenders apologies later?” Shekhawat said.
