Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday extended the special session of the Delhi Assembly by one day to place a “confidence motion” on Monday even as he unleashed a scathing attack on the BJP inside the Assembly.
Addressing the special Assembly session, Kejriwal said the BJP toppled several Governments in the country till date — Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya. “There is a serial killer in the city who is committing one murder after the other. People choose a Government, they topple it,” he said.
Earlier, the Delhi Assembly witnessed stormy scenes with the ruling AAP shouting “khokha-khokha”, accusing the BJP of trying to buy its MLAs, and the Opposition hitting back with “dhokha-dhokha”, referring to the alleged liquor scam.
Amid the slogan shouting, Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla marshalled out all the eight BJP MLAs for the entire day of the one-day session over an alleged video recording charge levelled by an AAP MLA on chief whip of the Opposition Ajay Mahawar. After being marshalled out of the House, the BJP MLAs staged a protest under the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the Assembly premises. They also went to meet Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to lodge a complaint.While addressing the Assembly, Kejriwal added: “All anti-national forces have come together against Delhi’s AAP Government, ours is the most popular one, these forces want to break us but all our MLAs are together. They’ll fabricate false cases against us till Gujarat polls.”
During the session, Kejriwal added that if the BJP wanted to work against corruption, then it should investigate the paper leaks in Gujarat and how hundreds were killed by poisonous liquor. “The BJP’s fortress in Gujarat is under threat and is crumbling now. ED, CBI raids on us are due to the upcoming polls in Gujarat,” he alleged.
Kejriwal alleged the BJP is using money collected through GST and hike in petrol and diesel prices to poach MLAs. “The BJP has bought 277 MLAs till now across the country. Delhi Lieutenant Governor has now started a probe in our schools. They want to stop good work being done in schools and hospitals,” he said.
Earlier, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the first information report (FIR) filed against him over implementation of the now-withdrawn excise policy was a fake and that the CBI will not find anything incriminating even if it carries out 1,000 raids. Speaking in the House, Sisodia said that this is the first corruption case in the country where no additional financial burden has been put on the citizens and the Government is also getting more revenue in form of licensing fees.