Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday
warned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against trying to exploit the coronavirus
crisis to instigate people in Punjab’s villages, which have witnessed a spurt
of fake news and provocative videos. At least one of the news was found to have
emanated from abroad, most likely Pakistan, and propagated here by an active
worker of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Singh said Kejriwal’s announcement in the midst
of the shocking viral campaign, asking AAP workers to go around villages and
streets of Punjab with oxymeters to check people’s oxygen levels, raised
serious questions on the role of his party in the conspiracy to undermine the
Punjab government’s efforts to keep the pandemic under check and save the lives
of the people of the state.

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“We don’t need your oxymeters. We just need you to rein in
your workers in Punjab, where they are trying to incite my people into not
going to hospitals to get themselves tested and treated for COVID,” Captain
Amarinder said to Kejriwal.

Captain Amarinder asked the Delhi Chief Minister to stay out
of Punjab and focus on managing COVID-19 in his own state, where the situation was
worsening by the day with more than 2500 new cases being reported yesterday and
hospitals reportedly running out of ICU beds again.

The Punjab CM also said the video/post propagated
by the AAP worker, Amrinder Singh, was seen to be exhorting and provoking
people not to cooperate with health authorities, thus endangering the health
and safety of the citizens of the State.

AAP’s Amrinder Singh has been arrested and is being
questioned to ascertain who motivated him to circulate the outrageous post of a
dead body to mislead the people of Punjab into believing that organs of dead corona
patients were being removed by the Punjab Health Department.

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Such rumours are provoking a section of the community to
resist proper medical care that needs to be provided to all infected citizens, said Captain
Amarinder.

Amrinder Singh of village Mishriwala, Naju Shah, PS
Kulgarhi, Ferozepur, has been arrested by Punjab Police in a case u/s 66 IT
Act, 54 DMA and 153 IPC for circulation of false and misleading posts on social
media platforms.

Meanwhile, Captain Amarinder has asked DGP Dinkar Gupta to
thoroughly investigate the complaint of journalist Taruni Gandhi about being
offered money to spread fake videos on the COVID-19 crisis.