Soon after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved a Confidence Motion in the Delhi Assembly on Monday to prove that all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs were with him, Delhi BJP leaders called it a ploy to distract people’s attention from the alleged “liquor excise and education scams.”
The BJP on Monday questioned who had asked for it in the Delhi Assembly. BJP leaders on Monday held protests at 13 places in Delhi demanding the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma tweeted, "Kejriwal is a headline hunter. He lives and loses by his media image.
The liquor scam has exposed his corrupt Government. He tried to change the narrative to some imaginary plot to break the AAP, but questions on the liquor scam refuse to go away."
"Kejriwal is orchestrating a made-for-media 'confidence motion' just to change headlines from the liquor scam. Will the media play along with a scamster or will they call his opportunism out? He has no credibility left, but I'm sure the media has?," Verma added.
BJP information technology cell head Amit Malviya tweeted, "Who has asked for a Confidence Motion in Delhi Assembly? No one. It is just a desperate ploy to distract from the liquor excise and education scams, somehow obfuscate truth. There is no threat to Kejriwal's Govt. Question is - will media relent or wilt under pressure of ad money?"
North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari said, "The party with 62 MLAs out of 70 will bring a confidence motion against itself, then get it passed, then it will get it printed in the media.
What does AAP think of people of Delhi? Wasting public money and time. If you have to do it, then discuss the CAG report and give an account of the loot of liquor and school rooms."
Addressing the media, BJP Delhi Chief Adesh Gupta alleged that Kejriwal appointed an architect, who is a close consultant of Minister Satyendar Jain, without tender and sought a probe into the matter.
“Everything happens via tender. He (Delhi CM) arbitrarily appointed an architect, a consultant close to jailed Minister Satyendar Jain – Babbar and Babbar. He appointed a consultant without tender. It should be probed,” said Gupta.
“It has been found that Babbar and Babbar Associate, too, was appointed by the Delhi Government without tender. This is a matter of grave corruption,” he alleged.
BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said that “corruption is in the DNA of Arvind Kejriwal. It’s not AAP sarkar but PAAP ki sarkar (government of sins). “He and (Manish) Sisodia are experts in corruption… Where did this money go? Did it go in your pocket, Arvind Kejriwal ji? Did you take note of the report? What action did you take on it?" Bhatia said.
“The AAP Government promised to construct 500 new schools in Delhi. That never happened. They then said they will build more classrooms in the existing schools. The number of rooms was increased from 2,400 to 7,180. The construction cost was increased by up to 90 per cent," he alleged.