The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been pressing for fresh elections in Delhi, on Wednesday, demanded that the lieutenant Governor (l-G) must call a meeting of all political parties and take the final decision at the earliest.
“We demand that l-G shud (sic) call all party meeting today itself, take final decision by eve and inform court tomorrow accordingly,” AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted.The AAP has been demanding fresh elections in the national Capital and has accused the l-G of “favouring” the BJP.
“It is unfortunate that the l-G is in active collusion with the BJP and has been running the backdoor Government for the BJP and acting as an agent of the BJP rather than protecting the Constitution of India. We are in a democratic country and there should be a people’s Government and elected Government and the l-G should be trying his level best to have the elected Government. Under BJP’s instruction, he is constantly delaying everything,” said Kejriwal.
Kejriwal also accused the l-G of doing nothing to end the political deadlock in Delhi for the last eight months. “Now, the l-G is saying that they would hold talks with all political parties over Government formation. I want to ask him what he was doing for the last eight months. We were constantly requesting him to call a meeting of all political parties to discuss this issue.
“And, this practice takes just five minutes to reach any decision. Earlier, the l-G was saying that he wanted to invite BJP and get President’s instructions. Now, the President has allowed him, but he is now neither calling BJP nor any other political party because there is a hearing in Supreme Court tomorrow and they want to just bypass the hearing with some excuses,” he said.