Stooping to a new low, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today instead of reprimanding his party MLA and senior leader Somnath Bharti for using derogatory language on air chose to defend him by indulging in lowly whataboutery.
Will someone in this country have the courage to get justice to these two women or everyone is scared of Modi ji? https://t.co/SJL5yHfuv1
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 22, 2018
Bharti was caught on camera referring to a Sudarshan News channel journalist to ‘take to prostitution’ for asking him an uncomfortable question. After widespread social media outrage, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal condemned his behaviour. Somnath Bharti then decided to brazen it out and accused PM Modi of ‘imprisoning’ his estranged wife Jashodaben.
And when will police lodge a case of abduction of Mansi Soni n locate her n quiz Mr. Modi on the same because Mr. Modi hs been alleged to keep chasing her thru Gujarat admin n his strong man Mr. Shah allegedly for his lust for Mansi, a girl of his daughter’s age?..2/2
— Adv. Somnath Bharti (@attorneybharti) November 21, 2018
He even accused the PM of ‘lusting’ after one Mansi Soni and abducting her.
Irked by Maliwal’s condemnation, Bharti lashed out on his colleague for not approving of his inappropriate behaviour. Bharti asked Maliwal to take ‘appropriate’ steps against PM Modi on the above allegations.
.@SwatiJaiHind आपने बगैर मेरा पक्ष जाने और बगैर 20 sec के वीडियो की सत्यता परखे मेरे खिलाफ फैसला सुना दिया। मै तो छोटा आदमी हूं, लेकिन अगर आप जसोदाबेन जी और मानसी सोनी जी को न्याय दिलाने के लिए मोदी जी के खिलाफ कार्यवाही करें तो आपको महिलाओं के हकों की लड़ाई में अगुआ जनता मानेगी। https://t.co/CsMkY5Ht9y
— Adv. Somnath Bharti (@attorneybharti) November 22, 2018
Kejriwal tries to deflect the issue
Not to lose out on an opportunity to take a dig on PM Modi, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who has still not condemned his colleague’s behaviour, attacked PM Modi and asked why is everyone ‘scared’ of Modi.
Will someone in this country have the courage to get justice to these two women or everyone is scared of Modi ji? https://t.co/SJL5yHfuv1
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 22, 2018
He then even retweeted tweets praising himself which describe him as courageous.
Only @ArvindKejriwal has the courage in this country to ask for justice for Jasodaben and Mansi Soni. All other politicians, media persons and intellectuals conveniently behave as if @narendramodi never abandoned his wife and he never stalked a woman.
— Preeti Sharma Menon (@PreetiSMenon) November 22, 2018
Swati Maliwal joins in
Not to be left behind, Swati Maliwal, too, retweeted tweets where other AAP leaders had asked her to act against Modi.
It is rather unfortunate that instead of condemning the behaviour of his colleague, Arvind Kejriwal and his team resorted to deflecting the issue and brazening it out.
