Go back and stop rapes in Delhi, Akali Dal tells visiting Arvind Kejriwal

SARAWAN: A vicious political cious political battle was sparked off after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday met families of the two Sikhs who were killed in police firing in Faridkot on October 14.

Kejriwal accused the SAD-BJP government in Punjab of being totally ineffective on the issue of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and added that innocent Sikhs had been had been killed by the cops.

In retaliation, Akali Dal accused him of trying to stoke communal tension in the state and asked him to focus on the rapes in the national capital.Even Congress leader and exCM Captain Amarinder Singh attacked the AAP chief saying he had come a little too late.

SAD leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Daljit Singh Cheema, called Kejriwal's visit a new low in the politics of the country . "We fail to understand why a CM who has expressed his helplessness in controlling rapes in Delhi and whose five ministers have been embroiled in criminal cases, should try to disturb the peace in Punjab and create fresh trouble for a duly elected government," they said in a joint statement.

Kejriwal however said that he would write to his Punjab counterpart. "I just met the father of one of the two Sikhs who were killed," Kejriwal said. "He has not even got the FIR filed against the cops who killed his son. I am going to write a letter to Punjab CM to at least share that information with these families," he added, while talking to reporters in Sarawan.

The AAP supremo, who was on his first visit to Punjab after taking oath as CM, met families of Gurjeet Singh, 26 and Krishan Singh 44. The two men, part of demonstrators protesting against sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib, were shot down by Punjab cops.