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Charanjit Chhani | Arvind Kejriwal

Give Rs. 5000 to Arvind Kejriwal to get a nice 'suit boot': Charanjit Singh Channi

| @indiablooms | Oct 07, 2021, at 05:54 am

New Delhi/IBNS: In a crass comment, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal should be given Rs. 5,000 to get a "suit-boot".

"Do you have ₹ 5,000? Everyone has it. Give it to him (Mr Kejriwal) too... at least he can get nice clothes... can't he get a suit-boot? His salary is ₹ 2,50,000, can't he get nice clothes," Chhani said.

The comment triggered a response from Arvind Kejriwal, who switched focus to the ruling Congress's track record ahead of next year's election.

"Channi sahib, you don't like my clothes. No problem... (but) leave the clothes. When will you fulfill these promises," Kejriwal tweeted - a reference to promises made ahead of the 2017 election.

"When will you give employment to every unemployed; When will you waive the loans of farmers; Why not send those guilty of sacrilege (a reference to the 2015 desecration case) to jail; When will action be taken against tainted ministers, MLAs and officers?"

Channi, who last month replaced Amarinder Singh as Punjab CM, was asked by news channel ABP about Kejriwal's comment that the Congress had made a "tamasha (mockery)" of Punjab.

To this he responded with the 'suit-boot' comment.

The AAP and the Congress are set to go head-to-head in next year's Assembly election.

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