Disclose sources of your party funding from foreign shores, SAD to Kejriwal
21 November, Chandigarh
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Monday asked AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal to disclose his own party’s source of funding from foreign shores to make the people of Punjab aware of the origin of these funds.
“This should be your first step to clean yourself from any association with tainted money”, SAD senior leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa said, adding that even though this demand had been made several times, AAP continued to keep the source of its foreign funding a secret.
“You claim to stand for transparency. Why are you hiding the source of your funding? It would be better you come clean on your own party funds”, he added.
In a statement here, the SAD leader said the credit for exposing Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh and his family’s foreign accounts could not be snatched from the country’s enforcement agencies by the cheap theatrics of Kejriwal.
He said the agencies had been able to deliver and expose the monies stashed abroad by the Amarinder family because of the free hand given by the NDA government. He said Capt Singh had also acknowledged the same, though incorrectly, by claiming that he was being targeted by the NDA government.
“The truth is that the erstwhile Congress government stonewalled all attempts to expose people like Amarinder, who had hoarded crores of the hard-earned money of Punjabis abroad in foreign accounts. It is only after the NDA government came into being that these accounts were put into public domain”.
Mr Dhindsa said Mr Kejriwal had displayed his chameleon qualities to Punjabis again through his actions today. “Here is a man who is parroting out details about foreign bank accounts, which are already known, even as he continues to support black marketers and chit fund fraudsters by taking a stand against the demonetisation drive”.
He asked Mr Kejriwal to stop this sham of being a crusader against corruption.
“Your government in Delhi has become synonymous with corruption. You, of all persons, cannot take a high moral ground on corruption, when so many of your legislators are in jail on corruption charges. You also stand accused of selling your party tickets in Punjab. It would be better if you answer people why you are indulging in such under hand means to collect money and come clean on foreign accounts.