BJP gets ammo ready to take on Kejriwal Govt

Blaming the Delhi Government for unchecked “violation” of constitutional norms, the BJP said that it will take on Arvind Kejriwal Government over former law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar’s alleged fake degree case, power tariff hike and an array of other issues in Delhi Budget session scheduled to begin on Tuesday. 

leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta said that AAP Government boasts about being itself being corruption-free and on the other hand they had a law Minister with a fake degree. “Arvind Kejriwal should clear the stand on Tomar,” he added.

Gupta also added that the party has prepared a strategy to corner the Government, by highlighting its “ineptness” and “hypocrisy”, both inside and outside the House, during the six-day-long Session that starts on Tuesday.

The Opposition party also warned the Arvind Kejriwal Government against the use of “strong arm-tactics” like deployment of marshalls inside the Assembly, saying such methods does not “scare” the party’s MlAs and threatened to launch a “large-scale protests”. Gupta accused AAP of using its “brute majority” to “violate and subvert all established constitutional norms and practises”.

Decrying the Government for not appointing lokayukta, he also sought to know as to why the anti-corruption branch was not registering cases against AAP MlAs, who he alleged have “serious charges against them”.“Why is the ACB not opening the files against the MlAsIJ Why did not it act against Tomar, Vishesh Ravi and Surinder SinghIJ If lokayukta was here, they would have been indicted of corruption like Sheila Dikshit,” Gupta claimed.

BJP’s South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri vowed to “expose” the Government’s alleged “hypocrisy” of providing perks and benefits to the 21 Parliamentary Secretaries while keeping them “out of the purview” of office of profit clause.Bidhuri also spoke of the party’s decision to demonstrate outside the Assembly premises till the Fourth State Finance Commission “is tabled” in the House, claiming its non- implementation had resulted in the recent crisis in the three civic bodies in the city. 

The BJP also claimed that the State Finance Commission report had recommended increasing the share of local bodies in the state government’s tax revenues from the “current 4 per cent to 12.5 per cent”. “That would solve the whole issue.”