Published 21:23 IST, May 26th 2024
First Time Hearing About Work From Jail: Rajnath Singh's Jab At Kejriwal
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday took a dig at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he had heard about "work from home"
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Chandigarh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday took a dig at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he h heard about "work from home" but it is first time that he is hearing of "work from jail".
dressing an election rally in Punjab's Khanna, Singh said, "Here, AAP is ruling party. You don't need to be told much about what kind of work it is doing." "re is also an AAP government in Delhi. But AAP leer was jailed in liquor scam," he said, referring to Kejriwal's arrest in a money-laundering case linked to alleged excise policy scam.
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defence minister, who was campaigning for BJP's Fatehgarh Sahib candidate Gejja Ram Valmiki, said he thinks every leer should have moral courage to resign from ir post if y face any allegation until being cleared of charges.
In evening, Singh dressed anor rally in Bathinda in favour of Parampal Kaur, party candidate from seat.
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He launched a fierce attack on both AAP and Congress in his rallies.
"AAP leer Kejriwal was jailed in liquor scam. Even after that, he says he will continue to occupy chief minister's post. He says he will work from jail," Singh said.
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"We know about work from office, I have heard about work from home but this is first time I am hearing about work from jail," Singh said in a dig at Delhi chief minister.
Supreme Court granted AAP supremo Kejriwal, who is currently campaigning in Punjab, interim bail till June 1, last day of Lok Sabha elections, and directed him to surrender and go back to jail on June 2.
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defence minister also attacked Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on various fronts.
He alleged that mining mafia, drug tre, and shooters' gangs are active in state. But Bhagwant Mann is busy pleasing his party's political bosses by going to "Delhi durbar" with little concern for his state, he ded.
Appealing to voters to give BJP a chance in Punjab, Singh said, "I will n see who indulges in drug tre here." Attacking Kejriwal, he said, "In every street, liquor shops were opened in Delhi during Kejriwal's tenure. And you know what situation in Punjab related to drugs is." Singh also hit out at Congress, saying y ruled country for nearly six deces, but kind of progress which nation should have me did not happen as he referred to Congress regimes from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh.
"I never criticise any PM...because I believe PM is not an individual, but an institution, refore his public criticism should not be me.
"But who will deny this reality. progress India should have me during those years (under Congress rule) that did not happen. Poverty did not end," he said.
veteran BJP leer n said, "You will ask me has everything happened after Modi ji came to power." Singh said that he does not want to say that previous PMs did not do anything, but pace of progress and development that took place during PM Modi's rule was never seen before.
A new India is being built with new thinking, he said, while pointing to rapid progress which country has me on various fronts, including on economic front.
Singh also took on Congress leer Rahul Gandhi over latter's recent remarks that system is heavily aligned against lower castes and that he knows system from inside as his grandmor and far were prime ministers and later he used to visit PM's house when Manmohan Singh lived re.
"I think he kept reality of n Congress governments. system which y me was against poor, scheduled castes and backward classes," Singh claimed.
He again launched a scathing attack on opposition INDIA bloc over corruption issue and asked should government not take action against corrupt.
He also said y are trying to misle by saying if "we get 400 seats, dictatorship will be imposed in country and changes will be me in Constitution".
More than 70 times y did job to dissolve elected governments and "y n point fingers at us", he said attacking Congress and INDIA bloc.
y are conspiring to weaken country, said Singh, as he attacked former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi for calling Poonch terror attack, in which an IAF soldier was killed, a "poll stunt" meant to "make BJP win" Lok Sabha elections.
re was hardly any state where terror activities did not take place during Congress' rule, defence minister said, ding that now, barring an odd incident in Kashmir, no one dares to carry out such activity.
On Citizenship Amendment Act, which is to grant citizenship to religiously persecuted people who came to India from Pakistan, Banglesh and Afghanistan, Singh said opposition was trying to misle on this too.
He referred to former Pakistani minister Chaudhry Faw Hussain's "praise" of Rahul Gandhi and said Pakistani leer h recently said, "Rahul on Fire".
"y are not getting support from Indian public, now Pakistan people are supporting m," Singh said.
About Punjab, he said this is an agrarian state and listed several initiatives and schemes for farmers' welfare. "Many things still need to be done." He acknowledged that brave sons of farmers are guarding country's borders.
Singh said, "It is our PM's pledge to make India a developed nation by 2047. way country is moving ahe, by 2070-2075, I am sure, it will be world's richest country."
(Except for heline, this story has not been edited by Republic and is published from a syndicated feed.)
21:23 IST, May 26th 2024