Delhi Congress on Wednesday launched an attack on AAP and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with senior party leader and AICC treasurer Ajay Maken labeled the AAP national convener as anti-national, saying forming an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was a 'mistake' on Congress's part, which now needs to be rectified. Releasing a 12-point 'white paper' titled 'Mauka Mauka, Har Baar Dhoka' against the AAP government, Maken lashed out at Kejriwal, saying his party came to power riding on the Janlokpal agitation but has failed to set up the anti-corruption ombudsman.
Addressing a press conference, AICC treasurer Maken lashed out at Kejriwal and said, "If there is one word to describe former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal here then it would be Farziwal."
"If anyone is the king of fraud in the entire country then it is Kejriwal and that is why we have come here with a white paper on the Kejriwal government and also on the BJP government at the Centre," Maken said.
Maken said that forming an alliance with AAP was a "mistake" that should be rectified, and said, "I feel that today the plight of Delhi and that the Congress got weakened here is only because of the fact that we supported AAP for 40 days in 2013.”
Maken lashed out at Kejriwal, saying his party came to power riding on the Janlokpal agitation but has failed to set up the anti-corruption ombudsman.
"If there is one word to describe former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal here then it would be Farziwal," he said while releasing the white paper titled "Mauka Mauka, Har Baar Dhoka". "If anyone is the king of fraud in the entire country then it is Kejriwal and that is why we have come here with a white paper on the Kejriwal government and also on the BJP government at the Centre," Maken said.
Maken, elaborating on the 12 main points in the White Paper, said that while thousands of people fled Delhi in agony during the Covid-19 pandemic, BJP built the Central Vista and Kejriwal constructed his “Sheesh Mahal”; Rs 1780 crore budget allocation of old age pension were allowed to lapse as the Central Government allocated only Rs 1800 per pensioner instead of Rs 2000, and Kejriwal Government refused to add the rest Rs 200, and thus allowed the budgeted amount to lapse, though the best option would have been to pay the Rs 1800 per pensioner given by the Centre.
Maken questioned why the Janlokpal had not been formed even in Punjab. "If LG is not allowing you here, then make it in Punjab. Who is stopping you? You have a full-fledged government there, why don't you make it there? This is just an excuse. The party (AAP) was formed 10 years ago in the name of Janlokpal, now they have forgotten it,” he said. They also used to say that they would make Delhi like London. "They have made the national capital number 1 in pollution," he said.
Along with Maken, and AICC Delhi in-charge Qazi Mohd Nizamuddin, Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav, co-incharges Danish Abrar and Sukhwinder Singh Danny were also present.