'System Ki Dhajjiyan Uda Rahen Hain': Hardeep Puri Jabs Kejriwal At ABP Shikhar Sammelan 2024
Hardeep Puri said back in the day, any leader holding a responsible public office would owe moral responsibility in the event of any “misdeeds” or revelations and step down.
New Delhi: Weighing in on the prevailing political scenario in the national capital in light of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest in connection with the excise policy case, Union Minister Hardeep Puri on Friday accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of flouting the time-honoured conventions in the country.
Speaking at the ABP Shikhar Sammelan 2024, Puri said back in the day, any leader holding a responsible public office would owe moral responsibility in the event of any “misdeeds” or revelations and step down. However, the goings on under the AAP rule in Delhi mark a significant departure from conventions.
To a question on whether Delhi was staring at a constitutional crisis with the CM in ED custody, the Union Minister said, “Since I am no longer a bureaucrat, I would give my honest political assessment in the matter. Yeh toh system ki dhajjiyan uda rahen hain (They are turning the system upside down). Their Education Minister (Manish Sisodia) is in jail because of liquor, their deputy chief minister (also Sisodia) is in jail in the same case. Now the CM is giving them company.”
केजरीवाल की गिरफ्तारी के बाद क्या दिल्ली में संवैधानिक संकट है?
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“There are certain time-honoured traditions in the country. In previous years, if there was even a whiff of a scam, the minister concerned would step down owning moral responsibility for the alleged misdeed. What we are seeing now is the exact opposite,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the Opposition over the electoral bond scheme, the Union Minister said, “It is good that the Supreme Court gave a ruling on electoral bonds as all the details will now come in the public domain. A party with 303 Lok Sabha seats received Rs 6,000 crore, while another party which is in power in just one state got Rs1600 crore.”
क्या भाजपा अरविंद केजरीवाल से डर गई है? AAP के दावों पर क्या बोले हरदीप सिंह पुरी?
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On the AAP running a social media campaign claiming Kejriwal to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “biggest fear” going into the Lok Sabha elections, Puri said, “Whenever Kejriwal pits himself against PM Modi, his graph as a leader drops further down, while the latter’s stays where it was. He called himself a ‘aam aadmi’ and refused to use ‘laal batti’. My question is for someone who claims to be ‘kattar imaandaar’ (someone with unimpeachable honesty), why did he dodge so many summons by ED in the liquor case?”
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