Stepping up its attack against Arvind Kejriwal, Congress party today charged the activist with trying to “gain cheap popularity” by levelling charges against Law Minister Salman Khurshid in connection with a family-run trust.

“This is cheap popularity. He does not know what is democracy, parliamentary procedures. He wants popularity and is using the media for this,” Congress leader and Minister of State in the PMO, V. Narayanasamy, said.

Speaking to reporters at the airport here, he said Kejriwal would one day “feel the heat and learn a lesson.” Defending Khurshid, he said there were no irregularities and maintained it was a private transaction where there was “no proof to show government support.” “Kejriwal is maligning people. He will feel the heat and learn a lesson,” the Minister said, adding that 100 slogan-shouting persons cannot “decide the fate of the country.”

He charged Kejriwal with furnishing “bogus account” regarding the money collected for veteran activist Anna Hazare’s fast in Delhi demanding Lokpal.

Kejriwal had accused that Khurshid’s NGO siphoned off money meant for the disabled. The Minister’s wife and Director of the NGO, Louise Khurshid, had described the charges as “baseless innuendos” and accused the activist of “doing politics using the shoulders of the disabled.”

Asked about the Supreme Court endorsing the Cauvery Tribunal’s ruling which directed Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu, Narayanasamy said that state had “no other alternative”.

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