Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Thursday took a jibe at the Aam Aadmi Party’s “lame defence” of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann after the Akal Takht declared him “anti-Guru and anti-Sikh”.
Reacting to the claims made by the CM and Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Wednesday quoting some vague reports from some anonymous laboratories, Warring remarked, “AAP is trying to defend the indefensible and telling one lie after the other.”
The PCC president also wondered how the AAP had managed to procure a report from two different laboratories within 24 hours to give a “clean chit” to the CM.
“Even when you knew you were going to lie, you should have lied properly and waited for some time," he taunted the AAP leaders, asking them who would believe them and their “clean chit” reports they got within 24 hours.
Asserting that the AAP was weak on defence, he said, the party was contradicting its own earlier stand. He pointed out, when CM Mann appeared before the Akal Takht a few months ago, he straightway rejected the videos saying these were artificially generated.
Warring also asked the AAP as to why it did not take any action for months together when these videos were being circulated in the public domain.
“Why only now and so quick and so fast?” he asked, while remarking that Wednesday’s defence by the AAP has raised more questions than it had answered and reaffirmed public perception that the AAP was a party of serial liars.
He suggested that the CM should avoid such confrontation with the Akal Takht, the highest temporal authority of the Sikhs.
“History may not be kind to you the way you are confronting Akal Takht,” he cautioned Mann.
