The Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Thursday hailed Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena’s decision to deny Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal permission to visit Singapore to attend the World Cities Summit.
Addressing the media, Gupta said that the entire team of AAP is politicising the issue of Kejriwal’s visit to Singapore where he would have publicised his “false” education and health model.
Gupta described the L-G’s decision as constitutionally and factually right and said that the meeting is of world cities Mayors and not of Chief Ministers and hence a CM has no logic going there.
“Going to Singapore is just an excuse because when it is a Mayor's meeting then what does a Chief Minister of a State get to do there. The fact is that he is so busy in his publicity and political expansion of his party and creating such an atmosphere as if the central Government and L-G are responsible for his failures,” Gupta said.
“There are lots of problems in Delhi which come under the purview of the State Government directly and he should rather be focusing on resolving them than wanting to go abroad. He said CM Kejriwal in his eight years tenure never ever tried to meet people and solve their issues on the ground level. “But he is only interested in going abroad and eager to present his so-called overall model in every area which is in shambles,” Gupta added.
Meanwhile, while appreciating the L-G’s decision, Delhi Assembly’s Leader of Opposition, Ramvir Singh Bhidhuri said that when others State’s CMs are not urging to visit the Singapore Summit which was organised for the Mayors of various cities, then why is Delhi’s Chief Minister being so stubborn about the visit after the disapprovals.
“Deputy CM Manish Sisodia is also misleading the people of the national Capital regarding this matter by giving false statements,” Bhidhuri added.