The BJP and the Congress on Monday accused the Aam Aadmi Party government of neglecting the city's roads for the past decade and only waking up to address the issue just 10 weeks before the upcoming assembly election. They termed it a political drama.

 In a statement, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that the Public Works Department (PWD), responsible for maintaining Delhi's roads, has been under the control of the "most corrupt faces" of the Kejriwal government.

 "The truth is that four people are primarily responsible for the poor condition of Delhi's roads: Arvind Kejriwal, Satyendra Jain, Manish Sisodia, and Atishi," he said.

 Earlier on September 27, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, after inspecting the roads, handed over a letter to Chief Minister Atishi in the Delhi assembly urging her to start the repair work of Delhi roads on a war footing.

 Sachdeva said, "AAP who has spent the last ten years destroying roads and neglecting maintenance are now waking up just 10 weeks before the election notification to claim that they will make the roads pothole-free."  Delhi cabinet ministers led by Atishi hit the ground running on Monday morning, inspecting and identifying damaged roads across the city to ensure a pothole-free national capital by Diwali.

 The Delhi BJP president claimed that the former PWD ministers Satyendra Jain and Manish Sisodia and current PWD Minister Atishi, who has been operating under the influence of Kejriwal, are responsible for the bad condition of the roads.

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari took a jibe at Kejriwal stating that Atishi proved he was "completely useless" as he never inspected the roads. "Those who slept for 4.8 years are now coming out on the streets to show off. Atishi has proved that Arvind Kejriwal was a completely useless Chief Minister because Arvind Kejriwal never inspected the roads... The people of Delhi will now send these people away permanently because the people of Delhi have understood that at the time of elections, they all talk sweetly and take good steps... The people of Delhi will punish them," he said.

Terming it a nautanki by Atishi and her cabinet road inspection, South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said Kejriwal government did nothing for the people of Delhi except press conferences. Evey day they conducted five to six press conference on daily basis,” he added.

 Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav wondered why the AAP Government waited till the election year to give attention to the  broken roads as these roads should have been recarpeted as a  matter of routine by the PWD under the Delhi Government.