Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday asked Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to stop playing blame games and accept the fact that he had committed a gross irregularity by appointing legislators to office of profit posts without amending the concerned State Act and be ready to face the people.
It had been conclusively proven that the Delhi CM had gone against the law by appointing 21 legislators to office of profit posts, said the former minister and SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema.
“The Election Commission had justly held this move to be unconstitutional. Instead of accepting this verdict gracefully, AAP is claiming that its chief parliamentary secretaries were not enjoying any facilities when the State chief secretary has submitted a report to the contrary. No elected government should lie in this manner and when caught should not try to defame institutions like the Election Commission. This kind of behaviour is reprehensible,” said Cheema.
Cheema said AAP was resorting to such cheap tactics because it was afraid of facing the people. “If AAP has not done anything wrong, it should not run away from the peoples' court...AAP is taking desperate measures like trying to approach the High Court to avoid going in for an election on 20 seats,” he said.
Kejriwal should face elections to all 20 assembly seats immediately and let the people of Delhi decide his fate, he added.