Chandigarh, December 22

Urging the AAP to refrain from indulging in mudslinging, CM Capt Amarinder Singh today made it clear that his meeting with Home Minister (HM) Amit Shah was only to discuss issues related to national security.

He said being the Home Minister of the border state, it was his foremost responsibility to apprise the Centre of developments in Punjab.

The CM said he won’t hesitate to meet the PM and the HM whenever issues of internal security were fanned by neighbouring hostile nations. He ridiculed the AAP’s allegations that he met Shah with regard to the ED cases as absolutely baseless, politically motivated and erroneous.

He clarified that no case had been filed by the ED against him. There was, however, a case filed by the ED against his son, Raninder Singh, which has been going on for more than a decade that too under FEMA, which at most was a civil fiscal matter. The HC has also stayed all earlier incorrect income tax assessment orders served on his son.

He dared Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to come clean on his dubious stand on the new farm laws, which were earlier notified by his government. “Now he is shedding crocodile tears over this sensitive issue by showing fake sympathy with the farmers, which is nothing but sheer theatrics on Kejriwal’s part,” the CM said. — TNS