Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said that the AAP Government has lost all the credibility and moral authority to stay in power as it failed to address the deteriorating air quality in the Capital.
Kumar demanded Kejriwal’s resignation forthwith after the apex court gave him 24 hours to tackle the air pollution or else the court will appoint an expert to oversee the Arvind Government’s functioning.
Addressing the media, Kumar said that a campaign like “Red Lights On, Gaadi Off” was only intended to get CM Arvind some cheap publicity, by endangering the health of around 2,500 marshals posted at nearly 100 traffic signals across the city and not to control pollution.
The Congress president said that the smog towers set up at Connaught Place and Anand Vihar, at enormous cost to the exchequer are big scams as they have served no purpose in checking air pollution. He said that it was surprising that while Government employees have been allowed to work from home, schools have been reopened to put the health of the children at risk.
Kumar said that Kejriwal sold false dreams of making Delhi like “London, Paris and Singapore”, but he has definitely succeeded in making Delhi the worst polluted city in the world with polluted water, Yamuna river, broken and dusty roads, clogged sewers and drains which create water-logging of streets after the first hint of rains, the worst spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue, highest unemployment rate, and the poor people living in insanitary conditions at JJ clusters and unauthorized colonies in the absence of lack of civic facilities.
Meanwhile, Delhi Congress vice- president Jaikishan also attacked the AAP Government saying that Kejriwal, eying on civic election, handed over a check of Rs 1 crore to a Corona worrier but ignored many others who are still awaiting relief from the government.
He said that many employees of even Government’s departments in Delhi have lost their lives while serving on duty during the Corona period but they have not received any relief from the AAP Government.