Kejriwal, Amarinder engage in Twitter spat over farms bills issue

TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh locked horns on Twitter on Wednesday over the farm laws issue, with the AAP supremo questioning the legality of the bills passed by Punjab Assembly and Singh accusing the opposition party of “double standards”. Singh told reporters that the two opposition parties in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal and Aam Aadmi Party, despite supporting the passage of the bills, intended to negate the central laws, inside the Assembly on Tuesday, criticised them publicly outside.

The Congress leader also asked the Delhi chief minister to follow Punjab’s example and bring out similar bills “to save farmers”. Hitting back, Kejriwal alleged that CM Amarinder Singh has cheated and fooled the people with his drama, prompting Singh to retort that the AAP leader’s remarks smack of ignorance and he was not surprised as Delhi is not really a state. Are you with the farmers or against them, Singh asked the Delhi chief minister.

I am amazed that they (SAD and AAP) spoke in favour of the bills in the assembly, and even went to meet the Governor along with me, but said different things outside. “This shows their brazen double standard,” Singh earlier told reporters in Chandigarh, after the three-day special session of the state assembly was adjourned sine die.