Salient points of the press conference of BJP National Spokesperson Shri Shehzad Poonawalla

 

 

Salient points of press conference of BJP National Spokesperson

Shri Shehzad Poonawalla

BJP slams Kejriwal for “Political Conversion”; labels him Natwarlal, Pinocchio of Indian Politics

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla in his press conference today said that there was a strange situation that developed in Delhi yesterday. Someone whose party is not united- namely Rahul Gandhi- whose party is in Tukde Tukde from Rajasthan to Chhattisgarh, from Karnataka to Maharashtra - from Gehlot to Pilot, from DK to Siddharamiah - was advocating and extolling about unity! And another gentleman who is fast losing all relevance in Bihar and has been relegated to third spot in Bihar- namely Nitish Kumar - together with Rahul are hankering for preservation, relevance and unity.

Poonawalla said that what was even more ironic and strange was the “political conversion and U turn “ of the India’s political natwar laal and Pinocchio namely the Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. He said that those who were born from the womb of IAC- India Against Corruption today have become JFC- justification for corruption. From being followers of Anna Hazare now they are follower of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Poonawalla reminded of the tweets and statements of Arvind Kejriwal in 2011, 2013 and 2015 where he had labelled Lalu PRasad Yadav as corrupt and somebody’s bhi furthered dynastic politics. Poonawalla quoted the statements in public domain against Lalu PRasad by AAP. He then wondered how come RJD and Lalu family was now being embraced in an alliance whose objective seemingly is to fight corruption. Poonawalla asked Kejriwal what had changed? Since 2013 Lalu Yadav has been convicted several times and has got no relief. Tejaswi Yadav, his son, has been implicated in a Rs 600 cr land for Job scam and the IRCTC scam. In both these cases no relief has been given to Tejaswi Yadav. In fact , Poonawalla added that Tejaswi was being investigated in the LFJ scam by CBI and ED and got no relief despite approaching courts for quashing summons. Poonawalla said that this scam was a “Reverse Robin-hood” scam where poor were being robbed from to fill the coffers of the family. He explained how land parcels worth crores were usurped for peanuts from those who wanted Group D jobs at 1/4th the market rates. He added that the entire scam had seen a chargesheet filed by CBI and the court had taken cognisance of the same and had held tha prima facie the evidence and charges suggested a scam had taken place. Poonawalla also added that the said Scam was first brought to public domain by ally of RJD - the JDU. It was a “Land do, job lo “scam.

Poonawalla asked Kejriwal how come LAlu family, seeped in corruption was being embraced today? Is it because Loktantra to bahana hai, apne apne brashtachar Tantra ko bachana hai?

He further elaborated that this alliance that was seeing cobbled up had no agenda of vision, mission but only had unity in commission, corruption, politics of division, obsession with PM Modi and ambition for position. Together these elements have formed Brashtachar Bachao Coalition

Poonawalla then asked Kejriwal some questions:

1. If prior to 2014 Lalu family was corrupt even before convictions took place how are they suddenly not corrupt after several convictions?

2. How are you giving a “degree of kattar imaandari” to Lalu family now? Yeh rishta kehlata kya hai ?

3. Is this the same “degree of kattar imaandari” you have given to Satyendra Jain, Manish Sisodia who are not getting relief for months from courts? Who have been labelled as kattar be-imaan, hawalebaaz and architect of sharab ghotala by courts?

4. Is it not true yet another revelation has come to the fore where Manish Sisodia - accused no. 1 in sharab ghotala forged and manipulated emails to show public approval for the corrupt sharab niti which AAP was calling as world’s best sharab policy?

5. We can understand the majboori of Nitish Kumar ji but what is the reason why AAP has embraced RJD?

Perhaps it can be summed up as :-

Chal padi corruption ki race

Sabko ban na hai thugbandhan ka face

Band karvaana hai apna apna case

Supreme Court ne lagayi inki armaanon par thes

Bachate fir rahe hai yeh apna kunaba aur apni space

On a question about insult of Veer Savarkar ji

Poonawalla said - Rahul Gandhi has no clue of the contributions of Veer Savarkar ji. On the one hand the Maharashtra government of Shinde ji and Fadnavis ji is celebrating the contributions of his Savarkar ji on his Jayanti and on the other hand Rahul Gandhi continues to insult Sawarkar ji, despite the warnings of Uddhav Thackeray ji and Sharad Pawar ji. He has disregarded even the views of late Indira Gandhi ji, Yashwantrao, Chavan ji, Narsimha Rao ji and many others on Veer Savarkar ji‘s contribution. But what is more surprising is that Uddhav Thackeray ji who used to be aggressive on this issue - his faction has been turned from the Tiger of Hindutava to the Bheegi Billi, of vote bank politics and except issue a cosmetic statement he can do or say nothing to Rahul Gandhi who continued to insult Savarkar ji. As a Maharashtrian I feel pained to see the ideology of Balasaheb Thackeray being disregarded for votebank by Uddhav ji.

On a question about the split in MVA and constant fights he said

MVA was not Maha Vikas Aghadi but actually Maha Vichitra Aghadi and Maha Vidambana Aghadi. Poonawalla added that the birth of this alliance took place, not on issues of conviction, but for sake of power, on the platform of contradictions and conveniences, and hence these contradictions keep playing out, and this alliance was headed for complete collapse and confusion. Ajit Pawar ji is slamming Patole ji and vice versa. None of them can see eye to eye on any issues of national or state importance but they are together merely to oppose one party and ideology.

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