Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has termed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as the biggest copycat who blatantly copies ideas from the manifestos of SAD and re-packages them as his own brainchild to promise moon to the electorates to deceive the people.
Earlier Congress party’s Punjab chief Capt. Amarinder Singh used to level such allegations against the Aam Aadmi Party for stealing his ideas and incorporating them in AAP’s election manifesto for Punjab polls 2017.
In a written statement, SAD Secretary and Punjab’s education minister Dr Daljit Cheema said the promises made by Arvind Kejriwal to the traders in Ludhiana today on the occasion of releasing his party’s trade manifesto, with regard to regularizing illegal colonies and abolishing VAT could best be termed as copied ideas because the SAD-BJP government had already taken effective action in this regard.
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The SAD leader said AAP supremo should stop promising moon to the people and better concentrate on ameliorating the lot of trading class in Delhi which was reeling under the repressive measures of his so called ‘People’s Government’ which had set targets to collect exorbitant taxes from the traders. “Can you please spell out the resources from where you would procure the funds to fulfill your gigantic misleading sugar coated promises for the Punjabis”? asked the SAD leader.
SAD (Badal) leader criticised the Aam Aadmi Party for not upholding promises made with the people of Delhi after obtaining power there.
He said Kejriwal had also promised to rationalize VAT whereas VAT was going off the radar from the trade scene next year as the Union Government was bringing in GST. The SAD leader also decried the imposition of special form ‘Sugam’ which was creating more troubles and adding to the confusion for traders thereby proving to be their bane.
Dr Cheema further alleged that Arvind Kejriwal government was busy in levying ‘goonda tax’ and ‘rangdari’ in Delhi which has led to 3 MLAs of AAP being booked. The SAD leader further said in the garb of regulating the liquor trade, Kejriwal is threatening the liquor barons to pay up for his party funds.
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