Hitting hard at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government, BJP leader Shahzad Poonawalla and MP Manoj Tiwari  on Tuesday alleged that 'sharab' (liquor policy) and 'shiksha' (education) "scams" had become the "twin towers of corruption" in the city and the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation was gradually building more floors.

The BJP leaders also alleged that the Delhi Government escalated the cost of building classrooms by multiple times and projected several school toilets as classrooms to justify the "bloated" bills.

At a Press conference, Poonawalla said, "People asked for 'pathshala' (schools), but the AAP Government gave 'madhushala' (liquor shops).

'Reverse Robinhood' model in Delhi Government, money meant for poor taken away to fill coffers of liquor mafia." “Under the new excise policy, liquor stores started receiving Rs 363 and the Government started receiving only Rs 8.  I call this Reverse Robinhood.

“They were filling the pockets of the liquor mafia with the money of the poor, that too in the Covid period.”

“The sale of liquor went up, but there was burglary into the government coffer. If it is a 750ml bottle (of liquor) which comes for Rs 550, then under Old (liquor) Policy, liquor stores were receiving Rs 33 and Rs 330 was going to the government coffer,” Poonawala said.

Tiwari cited the incident in which a Government school student in outer Delhi's Nangloi was injured after a ceiling fan in her classroom fell on her head.  "So far, the AAP's morality was falling, and now ceiling fans in their schools are also falling," he said, mocking the Kejriwal Government. Semi-permanent structures were used in many Government schools and that is the reason why fans are falling off the ceilings, he alleged.

Tiwari also alleged there was a scam in the construction of schools and the Government had escalated the cost of construction in many projects multiple times.

He flashed a report claiming that a cost of "Rs 5 lakh was bloated to Rs 33 lakh", and in many schools, toilets were "counted and projected as classrooms" to justify the cost escalation. There was no immediate reaction from the AAP or Delhi Government.