Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday expressed confidence that the state of Haryana would continue to extend full cooperation in the development of the national capital.

Speaking to reporters in Karnal, Haryana, CM Gupta said, “I believe that Delhi will keep getting full cooperation from the state of Haryana.”

She further remarked on the lack of coordination between Punjab and other states, stating, “Some forces are acting like an eclipse on the state of Punjab, which is why neither Punjab is able to develop nor maintain proper coordination with other states.”

Earlier in the, while speaking with reporters in Ludhiana in Punjab, the chief minister stated that those who once looted Delhi have now come to Punjab to plunder the state. The chief minister was in Ludhiana for campaigning for her party (BJP) candidate Jeevan Gupta for the assembly by-election.

“ Leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party, who fled from Delhi after facing public wrath, are now draining the hard-earned money of the people of Punjab. Punjab is drowning in the grip of drugs, land mafias are usurping poor farmers’ lands, and farmers are not receiving fair prices for their produce. The Punjab government is intoxicated itself,” she said

Delhi CM claimed that former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the AAP’s national convener, had made “tall promises” to the people of Delhi as well as Punjab but now stood exposed. “Those who ran away from Delhi after making tall promises are now sitting in Punjab... I want to ask them ‘kya hua tera vaada’ (what about your promises),” asked Gupta.

“Kejriwal should answer what happened to those promises. I will not ask Bhagwant Mann because he is only a “mukhota” (mask), the government here is being run by their leaders from Delhi who have been rejected by the people there,” she said. CM Gupta asked the AAP what is the fate of their promises to improve health infrastructure and schools.

“What about your promise to end drug problem in Punjab? What have you done for these years?...People have died due to consumption of spurious liquor in Punjab, what are you doing? With builder mafia, you are snatching land of poor farmers. In every street, outside every school “chitta” is sold.

Punjab has been converted into a “Chitta Express”,” she alleged.

She accused Kejriwal of displaying “false Punjabiyat today”. “When you were in power in Delhi for a decade, not even one minister in Kejriwal’s Cabinet was from the Sikh community. Did you not find them able? While in power in Delhi, you never did anything for the Sikhs,” she said.

 The chief minister said the process of delivering justice to the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims truly began after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. She also said that her government recently handed over job appointment letters to the families of 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims.

CM Gupta said the AAP had made promise to give Rs 1,000 per month to every woman in Punjab during the 2022 state assembly polls.

“Three-and-a-half years have passed, have they given a rupee. Kejriwal should answer. They had promised MSP to farmers. Did they give?” asked the chief minister.

“When the AAP came to power, they said they will end the VIP culture, they were here for change and not for power, they had said such things,” CM Gupta said.

“But now entire previous Cabinet of Kejriwal is now sitting in Punjab. They are using Punjab’s resources, for what, to enjoy the VIP culture. They are using the hard earned money of people,” she alleged.

The chief minister said after Kejriwal’s party lost power in Delhi earlier this year and the BJP formed the government, the AAP supremo forgot the people of the national capital.