@AamAadmiParty leader & minister Kapil Mishra writes to @BJP4Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari about his act of "mocking" ppl in ATM lines @htdelhi pic.twitter.com/VICb6Cg5KW



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Row erupts over Manoj Tiwari’s song on people standing in long queues outside ATMs

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari today denied that he had mocked people standing in ATM queues while singing a Hindi number about 'patriots' standing in queues after demonetisation A video of him singing those lines was widely shared and viewed on social media, and Tiwari said Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi party chief Arvind Kejriwal and his team were to blame for that."I was singing to further encourage and motivate people standing in lines by calling them patriots," Tiwari said today in a video message.He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked the people for 50 days, and the people had given him that.Tiwari was strongly criticized by the Aam Aadmi Party when a video of him singing the following lines surfaced: "Desh bhakt hai kataaar mein, lagi hai bhari bheed, takleefon se saj rahi bharat ki takdeer (Patriots are standing in lines, there's an enormous crowd, troubles are 'adorning' the country's fate)."Delhi minister Kapil Mishra wrote to Tiwari saying that he knew what he had done was wrong, and that's why he had asked the person filming the video not to release it. He asked Tiwari for an apology.But Tiwari today said the Arvind Kejriwal's and the AAP leaders' "main problem" is that he's "visiting slums and clusters of the city and spending time there and travelling in the Metro."Tiwari spent the night in the slums of Inderpuri in west Delhi on December 31, and in the slums of Nagloi on January 3."I am doing a reality check of the works of the Delhi government in areas where it (AAP) was given a massive mandate."Tiwari said he found that people in Delhi slums are facing water scarcity, which forces them to live in miserable conditions.Here's the video message Tiwari published on Facebook.