Chandigarh – The Punjab Revenue Minister Mr Bikram Singh
Majithia today challenged the Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader
Arvind Kejriwal to show the moral and political courage to agree to a
day-to-day hearing in the defamation suit filed against him by the
Akali leader in an Amritsar court.
Mr Majithia said that it had taken just one appearance before
the court to expose Kejriwal as a thorough coward and his daily boasts
against senior statesmen in the country as mere nautanki. “From a wild
accuser, he has been reduced to a mere accused. The accused is now
running for cover like a frightened hare. Will he like to tell the
people why did he enter the court from the back door. Instead of
showing the confidence to ask for speedy trial as an accused, he is
seeking long gaps between hearings in this defamation case in which he
faces certain jail. “This must have been a huge let down for
volunteers who expected him to act like a hero and to throw some
bombshell against me in the very first hearing. They went back badly
shaken and disheartened, watching their hero pulled down from high
tower to be named an accused , and literally begging for delays in
proceedings in the case,” said Mr Majithia.
“Why wait for six months even? You do not have to wait for that
long to put me behind bars. You can achieve that goal in a matter of
weeks. All you have to do is to agree to a day-to-day hearing in this
case, prove your charges on drug-trade and open the doors for a court
conviction against me. Come and face me daily and get it done with. It
won’t be six months but just days or weeks before either you or I go
to jail. Let people see who ends up where. I dare you to take up my
challenge,” ” said Mr Majithia in a statement here this afternoon,
adding that the only reason why Kejriwal is seeking long delays
between dates of hearing is that he just wants his Nautanki to carry
on till the elections in Punjab after which he hopes to resort to his
favourite trick of apoligising, as he and his party always do after
every sin and crime they commit. “But this time, I won’t let him
wriggle out with this hypocrisy. I will pin him down. Only one of us
will remain free and in politics now. Its either him or me.”
“And Mr Kejriwal, in Punjab it is not the government that will send
you to jail. It is the judiciary. Come and face me daily if you have
the courage ,” said Mr Majithia referring to Kejriwal’s boastful
challenge asking Majithia to arrest him within six months or face
arrest himself
The Akali minister said that AAP leaders and volunteers in Punjab
felt terribly let down to see their hero acting like a coward and
begging for long gaps between one hearing and another. They had come
expecting him to throw some bombshell and expose me before the court
in the very first appearance,” said Mr Majithia.
In a statement here this afternoon, Mr Majithia said that even as
an accused, Kejriwal acted like a novice in unsuccessfully trying
to browbeat the judiciary through state-wide posters pasted at his
behest across the state by the AAP workers on the eve of hearing in
the defamation suit.
The SAD legislator from Majithia further said that as a complete
outsider, Kejriwal knew nothing about the spirit and resolve of
Punjabi youth to taken on challenges. He went on leveling wild
charges of drug addiction against an entire generation. The outsider
Kejriwal, who is now an accused precisely because of this conduct,
had offeneded and enraged the youth of Punjab through his wild and
irresponsible allegations against them. The massive and spontaneous
surge of revulsion against Kejriwal seen in Amritsar yesterday must
have opened his eyes to the ground reality in Punjab. “Despite massive
mobilization through social media, newspapers and other means to
impress their leader, the AAP managers in Punjab could not
mobilize even decent gathering of supporters. The SAD issued no
appeals on social or other media and yet Punjabis. But the youth of
Punjab came in large numbers to show him what they think of his
daily vilification of them as drug addicts. ”
Mr Majithia said that the Delhi Chief Minister had gotten into
the habit playing cheap theatrical somersaults as he had been
emboldened by the decency and civility shown to him by senior and
respected statesmen in the country despite his wild and reckless
allegations . “But now Punjabi youth has challenged you to
demonstrate moral and political courage to live up to your bluster
and bravado against everyone, ” said Mr Majithia.