Kejriwal's latest crusade: reveals Amarinder & family's Swiss account details

Kejriwal's challenge

At a gathering at Kotshamir in Bathinda, Kejriwal revealed the account details of Amarinder's wife and former Union minister Preneet Kaur and their son Raninder Singh. Kejriwal said Preneet Kaur opened an account on 26 July 2005, bearing the number 509018445. He said Raninder's account was opened on the same day, numbered 5090184484.

Kejriwal further said that besides these accounts, they had also formed a trust to transfer their money, and the account number of their trust was 5090284483.

He challenged Amarinder to file a defamation case if the information was wrong. He also challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring back the black money stashed by Amarinder and his family.

"Instead of going after the poor people and the common man, Modi should go after people like Amarinder to bring back the black money stashed in foreign accounts," Kejriwal said.

He also asked Modi why he did not go after the Badals (Chief Minister Parkash Singh and his deputy and son Sukhbir), who have the biggest chunk of black money.

"Badals, during the last 10 years of misrule, amassed huge money due to their control on almost all businesses, including transport, cable, mining, liquor etc.." Kejriwal said.

The issue is likely to be raised by AAP at every political rally in the days to come. It had failed to enthuse the people when Khetan had raised it earlier this year, but it remains to be seen whether AAP, which is known for its anti-corruption politics, can make it a key election issue.

Amarinder's counter-attack

Ready with a counter-attack, Amarinder accused Kejriwal of acting as Jaitley's 'paid agent', and ridiculed his attempt to once again rake up the 'fabricated and politically motivated' charges of the existence of Swiss bank accounts in the names of his family members by releasing old and unauthenticated documents.

Questioning Kejriwal for using an election rally platform in Bathinda to make old allegations instead of facing the media on the issue, Amarinder said it was more than evident that the AAP leader had no answers to the questions the media would definitely have raised following the release of the old documents.

Amarinder said the alleged account numbers which are allegedly held by his family members are the same old numbers which Kejriwal's colleague Khetan had released in March 2016, and which he had already shown to be a sham.

He rejected the allegations as baseless and a publicity stunt that had no foundation, and whose veracity even the Central and state governments had failed to prove, despite having the entire official machinery at their disposal.

Alleging an election-motivated nexus between the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-BJP combine and the AAP, Amarinder said there had been attempts to malign him by implicating his family members falsely before the parliamentary elections as well. Amarinder had fought against Jaitley from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, and won.

He pointed out that Modi had launched a tirade against his family members at an election rally in Barmer, which Jaitley had picked up for his election campaign in Amritsar.

Amarinder said Jaitley had, as expected, suffered a humiliating defeat, clearly showing that the people of Punjab could not be taken in by such senseless charges, which even the Enforcement Directorate, working at the behest of the Finance Minister, had failed to prove.

Edited by Shreyas Sharma

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