Tewari shuts BJP’s mouth with Kiran Kher’s remarks

Chandigarh, May 11, 2024: Senior Congress leader and Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) candidate from Chandigarh parliamentary constituency Manish Tewari today hailed sitting MP and BJP leader Ms Kiran Kher for saying that he (Tewari) belonged to Chandigarh as he was born, brought up and educated here.

When asked to comment on Kher’s remarks during an informal interaction with reporters here today, Tewari thanked her (Kher) for shutting the mouth of the BJP leaders who were describing him as an outsider, despite the fact that he was born here, brought up here, educated here and where his father Prof Vishwanath Tewari was martyred for the unity and integrity of the country and for defending Punjab, the Punjabi and the Punjabiyat.

He said, it is a different story that those who were describing him as an outsider, where rank outsiders themselves as they come from Amritsar. He was referring to Sanjay Tandon, who belongs to Amritsar and was born and brought up there. At the same time, he pointed out, he never made it an issue as he firmly believed that anyone is free to contest from anywhere. 

The former union minister rapped the Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda for seeking five more years to solve and resolve various issues about Chandigarh. “What you could not do in ten years, how can you do it in five years?” he asked the BJP president, while adding, “it needs a will and an intention to solve people’s problems after getting their votes”.

“You may fool some people sometime, some people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”, Tewari told Nadda, saying people of Chandigarh are feeling cheated and deceived that the BJP was still asking five more years for solving their issues, which should ideally not have taken even five months if there was a sincere intention to do that. 

The senior Congress leader said, it was now a matter of less than a month when the INDIA government will replace the BJP at the centre and then it may take just about six months more, when the people of Chandigarh will start feeling difference as to what the sincere intentions of serving people actually mean. “We say what we mean and what we mean, we do”, he remarked.