AAP National Convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal during a press conference in Amritsar on November 23, 2021 (Express Photo by Rana Simran Singh) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said he is sending his Punjab counterpart Charanjit Singh Channi copies of one lakh ‘zero’ amount electricity bills and dared him to show even 1,000 such bills of his state. He also accused Channi of making “false announcements every day” just like his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh and challenged him to prove his claims of giving jobs to 36,000 contractual employees.
“I have seen big hoardings making tall claims in CM Channi’s name. These are all lies. Let him come and prove that he has given 36,000 jobs,” said Kejriwal.
He said a few days ago, some sanitation workers from Punjab met him and complained about not being regularised. When “safai karamcharis” or teachers have not been regularised, then who has been regularised, he asked the Congress-led government.
“False promises and claims are being made by Channi just as false promises were made by Capt Amarinder. Channi is promising five marla houses in villages to thousands of people when the reality is that in villages there is no land available for even a single house. These promises are just like the fake ‘ghar ghar rozgar’ scheme of Capt Amarinder in which not even a single person has got a job,” said Kejriwal.
The AAP national convenor added that after his announcement of Rs 1000 monthly grant to every woman in state above the age of 18 years, he has been attacked by Congress, Akalis and BJP for ruining the state’s finances. “I want to ask you who has ruined the state? Has it not been Akalis and Congress? If we give some money to our mothers and sisters it will only bring prosperity to Punjab, nothing else,” he said.
He said Channi had claimed that the price of sand had been slashed to Rs 5 per cubic feet but it was still being sold at Rs 35 per cubic feet.
Presenting one lakh zero rupee power bills of Delhi residents on the stage, Kejriwal challenged Channi to produce even 1,000 such bills in Punjab. “I challenge him to prove whatever he says. AAP is making promises of free power, free medical facilities because we have do all this in Delhi and we will do all this in Punjab too,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, state AAP president Bhagwant Mann said that Channi was in the habit of making announcements at the drop of a hat. “No notification has been issued for the majority of the cabinet decisions taken till date after Channi became the CM,”
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