‘Take care of your country’: Arvind Kejriwal shuts out Pakistani politician’s remark on voting in India
Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (May 25) slammed former Pakistani ministerFawad Chaudhry who reacted to a photo of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and his family voting in India's Lok Sabha elections.
Chaudhry was a minister in ex-prime minister Imran Khan's cabinet.
After casting his vote during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday (May 25), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo posted a photo of his family and himself posing with the fingers marked with the indelible ink, asking people to go out and vote.
"I voted today with my father, wife and children. My mother is very ill. She could not go. I voted against dictatorship, unemployment and inflation. You too must go and vote," Kejriwal had said in the post accompanying the photo.
Fawad Hussain responded to it by saying: "May peace and harmony defeat forces of hate and extremism."
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Kejriwal responded to the X post by first asking Fawad Hussain to refrain from commenting on Indian elections and then described Pakistan as the biggest sponsorof terrorism in a post worded in Hindi.
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"Chaudhary Sahib, I and the people of my country are fully capable of handling our issues. Your tweet is not needed. The situation in Pakistan is very bad right now. You take care of your country," Kejriwal said, while implicitly referring to the political and financial issues that have plagued Pakistan for many years.
"The elections taking place in India are our internal matter. India will not tolerate interference from the biggest sponsors of terrorism," he further added.
Meanwhile Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were quick to target AAP and pointed out that it was shocking to see Pakistani politicians supporting an Indian politician.
"Shocking! Why is Pakistan supporting Kejriwal and wanting more powers for him? This raises serious questions," BJP’s national secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.
(With inputs from agencies)