CHANDIGARH: Taking a dig at
Aam Aadmi Party supremo
Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Congress president
Amarinder Singh Raja Warring asked the Delhi chief minister as to why he was feeling desperate and frustrated over the arrest of health minister Satyender Jain by the Enforcement Directorate.
"Your reaction looks like that of someone with a frightened and guilty conscience", he told Kejriwal, while asking him, "or maybe you are yourself scared that the long arm of law may eventually catch up with you as well, and hence you are making a preemptive alibi against that".
Reacting to the allegations of "political vendetta" leveled by Kejriwal over Jain’s arrest, Warring asked, "how come when your government does the same thing in Punjab, it is zero tolerance towards corruption and when someone else does it with you, it is vendetta?"
The PCC president pointed out that chief minister
Bhagwant Mann after sacking and getting arrested his health minister
Vijay Singla claimed that there was an audio recording about demand for bribe, but even after a week, the recording has not been made public. Nor has the Punjab Police been able to recover or establish anything against Singla, he pointed out.
Warring advised Kejriwal not to have double standards on corruption.
"Similar things have happened in Delhi and Punjab, with only one difference: while you have already held the Punjab minister guilty and crucified him for reasons best known to you, you are blatantly defending your Delhi Minister despite serious charges of money laundering against him”, Warring pointed out.