Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Monday came down heavily on Chief Minister Atishi saying that she holds no political or administrative authority, and AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal is openly showing that it is his remote control government. Earlier AAP supremo accused the BJP for stalling all projects and linked this to his arrest. “After I was arrested, BJP troubled Delhiites, halting all works of AAP government including road repairs,” said Kejriwal. He alleged that road repairs have been stopped and old age pensions have been halted. Many other projects have also been paused, and several home guard personnel and others have had their salaries cut, he claimed.
Reacting to Kejriwal and Atishi’s press conference, Sachdeva accused the AAP convener saying he has ruined Delhi's roads and sewer system over the past ten years with no maintenance. When the situation worsened, he resigned to escape responsibility, placing the blame on Ms. Atishi. “Now, Kejriwal is having Atishi claim that the roads were damaged during this monsoon, but the truth is that it is the result of 10 years of neglect”, he said.
Delhi BJP president alleged that Kejriwal has violated constitutional and administrative norms by having the road inspection report and repair schedule announced from the AAP office instead of the Secretariat.
“By linking the road repair schedule with the elections and announcing it from the party office, Arvind Kejriwal has made it clear that the Atishi government is a remote control government. It would have been better if Kejriwal accepted that his government destroyed the roads and the Jal Board sewer system, and maybe now Atishi Marlena's government will fix it,” Sachdeva claimed.
In a scathing attack, South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the Kejriwal government has accepted their failure by promising to repair Delhi roads before the elections. Bidhuri said that Kejriwal was in jail for six months but the problems of Delhi are the result of 10 years of inaction.” They have time to address five to 10 press conferences every day but they do not have time to address the problem of the people of Delhi,” Bidhuri added.
Earlier in the morning, addressing a press conference at the party headquarters along with Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, Kejriwal said, “Now I have come out of jail. I want to assure everyone that we are now paying attention to all the pending work and problems of the people in Delhi. It is our duty to solve your problems. I have come to know that there is a problem with medicines in hospitals and Mohalla Clinics.”
He assured them that in the last nine years, AAP government has not let the people face any kind of trouble. “Be it roads, hospitals or electricity. We tried to provide every kind of facility to the people of Delhi. The kind of facilities that the people of Delhi have been getting for the last ten years are not available anywhere else in the country,” Kejriwal said.
Blaming BJP for allegedly putting their ministers in jail and tried to stall the work in Delhi, they are doing everything that they can, and the government is standing tall. “Now we have started all those works. Whatever work was stopped, I have asked CM Atishi to start it and our government will start all those works. We will try to solve the problems faced by the people,” affirmed Kejriwal.
Expressing satisfaction at the speed of the repair work, Kejriwal shared, “I am happy that all the MLAs, leaders and ministers of our party have come out on the roads day and night and inspected them. Which road is how bad and where, what work needs to be done, a report has been prepared of all of them. The work of repairing and re-carpeting has also started”.
In a post on X, Atishi said, “All the remaining work will be completed by 31 October. Also, more than half of the 6671 potholes have been filled, the rest will also be repaired soon.”
