Capt, AAP refuse to buy SAD’S ‘did it for CAA’ theory

If you found the CAA anti-muslim, why did you support it in

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha?

CAPT AMARINDER

SINGH, CM

Sukhbir Singh Badal and his wife Harsimrat are shedding crocodile tears.

HARPAL CHEEMA,

AAP leader

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday rejected the Shiromani Akali Dal’s claim that it opted out of the Delhi elections due to differences with alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Ridiculing the statement, Amarinder challenged the SAD to quit the alliance at the Centre to prove their sincerity with regard to the “unconstitutional” legislation, which they were party to passing in both Houses of Parliament. “Why don’t you (Akalis) walk the talk and show the people of India that you really stand against the divisive and destructive CAA?,” he said, urging the SAD minister in the Union cabinet to immediately resign in support of the party’s stated stand on the controversial legislation.

“If you found the CAA antimuslim, why did you support and pass the legislation in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha?” Amarinder asked the Akalis.

The decision to opt out of the Delhi elections was clearly motivated by political compulsions as the SAD had evidently realised it had no ground support and could not win even a single seat in the national capital, said the CM, adding, “or perhaps, the BJP was not ready to give them what they wanted in terms of seats, prompting them to look for a graceful way out of the situation”.

Leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema, who is also AAP MLA from Dirba, said the SAD’S claim only reflected its double standards. “When it came to discussion in Parliament, both Sukhbir Singh Badal and his wife and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had voted in favour of the CAA but were shedding crocodile tears back home in Punjab,” he said in a statement.