NEW DELHI: Coming down heavily on a
Pakistani lawmaker
for his comments on
Lok Sabha elections
,
Delhi chief minister
Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday responded strongly and said that India was fully capable of solving its own problems and that the Pakistani leader's tweet of support was not needed.
The former
Pakistan
minister replied to Arvind Kejriwal‘s post on X on voting with his family, and said, “May peace and harmony defeat forces of hate and extremism.”
In a response to the Pakistan lawmaker, Kejriwal said, “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,”
“The elections taking place in India are our internal matter. India will not tolerate interference from the biggest sponsors of terrorism,” he added.
Earlier in the day, posting a picture of his family after exercising his franchise, the Delhi chief minister wrote, “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.”
Notably, this is not the first time the Pakistani minister Fawad Chaudhry has come out in support of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Chaudhry had also supported Kejriwal after he received bail in the money laundering case linked to alleged liquor excise policy.
Eight states and Union territories are voting today in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha polls. By the end of this phase, a total of 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will have completed polling, with just 57 seats left for the seventh phase
(With input from agencies)
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