Sidhu calls AAP’s drive to select CM face ‘scam’

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday dubbed Aam Aadmi Party’s survey to select its CM face for the state Assembly polls a “scam” and “deceptive scheme” and said his party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against it.

Sidhu also launched a scathing attack against AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, calling him a “trickster and hypocrite”.

Addressing reporters at a press conference here, Sidhu urged the EC to register criminal cases against AAP for the “fake campaign”.

AAP had announced its Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann as its CM face last week following a survey in which people were asked to call on a phone number to give their preference.

Kejriwal had claimed that they had received over 21.59 lakh responses from January 13 to 17 under the “Janta Chunegi Apna CM” campaign and 93.3 per cent people had voted for Bhagwant Mann.

Sidhu got 3.6 per cent votes, the Delhi CM added. The Congress leader said this many calls can’t be received on a private number over a few days.

“If we try to compute this data, then it does not make sense at all. Usually, such calls take at least 15 seconds, then only 5,760 calls can be attended in one day and that shall add up to 23,040 calls in four days,” he said. –(PTI)