Chandigarh, Feb 12 (UNI) Scorning the Aam Aadmi Party’s ambition to rule the state as a ‘pipe-dream’, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday said it was ridiculous that a party that is totally faceless in Punjab should talk of having a grand CM face in the 2022 Assembly elections.

“With just a year to go for the Assembly polls, AAP could not find a face from Punjab to campaign in the municipal elections and had to drag in non-entities from Delhi for electioneering! And now they claim they’ll find a CM face that will be the pride of Punjab?”, mocked Capt Amarinder. “What can a party which sold off the farmers’ interests by implementing one of the Farm Laws in Delhi back in November know of Punjab’s `aan, baan and shaan,” he asked, adding that AAP neither knows nor cares what Punjabiyat is all about.

Far from learning from their mistakes of the past five years, AAP continues to blunder its way through Punjab, with absolutely no understanding or concern about the problems of its people, Capt Amarinder said. “All they see here is another state to rule, another seat of power. They do not see the pain and the problems of our people,” said he, adding that AAP is an outsider in Punjab and will remain so as long as it continues to be disconnected from the state’s ground realities.

The exodus of AAP leaders and members from the party’s Punjab unit over the past 2-3 years is just the tip of the iceberg; the fact is that they have no roots here, the Chief Minister said. “Arvind Kejriwal’s party has no existence outside Delhi, and will soon be wiped out from there too, given their shameless collusion with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), at whose behest they have been trying to befool the lakhs of farmers camping outside their city for more than two months now,” he said.

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