Taking a U-turn, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday denied to have ever called Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a terrorist.

“I have never done such a thing (calling Arvind Kejriwal a terrorist) ..”, claimed the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Javadekar as he spoke at a press conference.

Last week in Delhi, Javadekar had targeted Kejriwal, saying that there is enough proof available to prove that AAP leader is a terrorist.

Another eyebrow-raising statement that he made was blaming Congress for BJP’s defeat in the recently concluded assembly elections.

Javadekar claimed his party lost because of the “sudden disappearance” of the Congress. The saffron party secured only eight seats in the polls while the Congress failed to open its account for the second straight election.

“It is a different subject whether the Congress disappeared, people made it disappear, or whether their votes got transferred [to AAP). Because of Congress’ disappearance, there was a direct fight between the BJP and the AAP. We had expected 42% votes for us and 48% for AAP, but our prediction failed by 3% each. We [BJP] got 39% votes, while the AAP received 51% votes.”

Meanwhile, on another note, Javadekar on Friday said all the three Metro lines in Pune would be operational by 2022.
“The initial process for the Hinjewadi Metro line has been completed while the land transfer process is expected to be done by the end of March,” he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for the ₹11,420-crore project in December 2016, just ahead of polls to the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad civic bodies.