Capt, Kejriwal paper tigers: Badal

Ravi Dhaliwal

Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, October 26

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today called PPCC Chief Amarinder Singh and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal “paper tigers” and said these “tigers” would be mauled by the Shiromani Akali Dal in the elections.

The CM presided over a Sangat Drashan programme at Dera Baba Nanak today.

He said instead of discussing the problems of Punjab with the people, both Amarinder and Kejriwal were taking pot shots at each other on social media.

“These paper tigers are good for nothing. The social media is their new theatre. Both have developed a knack of roaring in the cyber space. These tigers will retreat to their respective dens, one in Delhi and the other in his New Moti Bagh residence at Patiala, after the elections,” said the CM.

Reacting to this, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Congress MLA from Dera Baba Nanak, said the CM would come to know after the elections that Amarinder was indeed a real tiger.

He said he was not extended an invite by the district administration for the programme. “On the one hand the CM delivers long sermons about democratic values while on the other he instructs officials not to invite democratically elected representatives to public functions,” he said.

Badal said the state government had sanctioned a grant of Rs 100 crore for the construction and maintenance of burial grounds for Christians and Muslims. This announcement evoked strong reaction from local Congress men who termed the decision as a “poll gimmick.”