Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal’s propagandist claims on Dalits and Sikhs in Punjab have been blown to bits, with three more party leaders, including a national executive member, quitting in protest against the 'corrupt and criminal' policies of the anti-Dalit, anti-Sikh and anti-Punjab party, according to Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh.The latest revolt in AAP came on a day when an RTI activist alleged the involvement of the party in a Rs. 100 crore Axis Bank scam involving 40 fake accounts in a Delhi branch of the bank.Instead of taking cognizance of the plethora of serious charges being made openly by his own party leaders and members, Kejriwal was busy fabricating nonsensical allegations against the Congress, which was riding a huge wave in its favour ahead of the Assembly polls, said Captain Amarinder.
Captain Amarinder dismissed as unworthy even of consideration, leave alone response, the allegations Kejriwal continued to make against him, his family and his party. Unable to come up with any answers to the questions being raised by the media as well as the public about the lack of probity and the widespread corruption in his party, Kejriwal was simply cooking up all kinds of idiotic and unfounded allegations to cover up the sins of AAP, said the Punjab Congress president.Captain Amarinder pointed out that the latest revolt, led by Yamini Gomar, was a sign of the extent to which the AAP leadership, including Kejriwal, had fallen in their obsessive hunger for power and money.Yamini Gomar, who had a remarkable run with more than 2 lakh votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on AAP ticket, resigned from all her AAP’s posts, including its primary and national executive membership as well as Punjab campaign committee, questioning Kejriwal’s credentials to position himself as a pro-Sikh and pro-Dalit leader when his party was openly sidelining these communities. Two other AAP members also resigned, alleging massive corruption and bungling in the party.These continuing revolts, said Captain Amarinder, had laid bare the tall claims of Kejriwal that he would ensure a Sikh chief minister and a Dalit deputy chief minister if his party comes to power in the state.
Kejriwal is not protecting the interests of either of these communities, said the Punjab Congress president, adding that the AAP leader was only interested in his own welfare.Captain Amarinder termed as extremely grave the allegations of Yamini that the AAP leaders, especially those from Delhi were the 'biggest manipulators and knew how to make fool of Punjabis' and said at stake are the interests of Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiyat.Yamini and the other rebels have endorsed what the Congress has been maintaining for a long time – that Kejriwal and his AAP have their eyes on seizing power in Punjab and are matching pace with the Badals in looting and plundering the people of the state, said Captain Amarinder.Captain Amarinder said Yamini’s resignation letter bore ample testimony to the fact that AAP, with its absence of inner democracy, corruption and criminal wrong doings, had lost all credibility in Punjab.