Kejriwal: Will resolve SYL in Punjab’s favour

Jupinderjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 17

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal has a post-election plan of action against the Badals and SAD leadership, but says the state will have to wait for an “opportune time” for AAP’s CM face.

On the SYL canal, he said the matter needed to be resolved at different levels, including the legal one. The AAP convener termed it a political matter left hanging by the Congress, BJP and Akalis. "We will solve the matter in the interest of Punjab. But if Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to solve it, he can do so in five minutes. His party is in power in the affected states of Punjab and Haryana as well as at the Centre."

Kejriwal set April 15 deadline for action against Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia. "If voted to power, the AAP government will arrest Majithia on drug charge," he told the media here today.

Majithia has filed a suit against Kejriwal and other AAP leaders, accusing them of defaming him on false charges of involvement in drug trade.

"I don't make hollow promises like other leaders. We had promised a similar action against former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit as well. And we fulfilled the promise by booking her in a corruption case. The case has been in cold storage ever since Modiji took control of the Delhi anti-corruption wing," he said. He announced to form a SIT to probe amassment of property by illegal means by the Badals.