TDelhi Bharatiya Janata Party president, Adesh Gupta welcoming the introduction of National Capital Territory (Amendment) Bill, 2021 said, “The Bill will remove existing ambiguities, help coordinate better between Centre and state and lead to speedy development of the capital. “
“The bill is aimed at promoting harmonious relations between the legislature and the executive and clearly defines the responsibilities of the elected government and the Lieutenant Governor in line with the constitutional scheme of governance of Delhi as interpreted by Supreme Court,” Gupta said.
The fact of the matter is the bill in no way curtails the power of elected government but only aims at better coordination between different wings so as to ensure developmental works are not stalled, but implemented with speed for giving Delhiites a better life, Gupta said adding the Kejriwal government should better concentrate on the work defined within its parameters rather than raising the bogey of curtailment of its power.
As a matter of fact, there are more than 75 subjects including water, transport, power, water, on which the state government could have acted independently and can do so even now, he said charging but Kejriwal only believes in creating hype through publicity rather acting on ground level.
The Delhi BJP leader further said need of the hour is better coordination not only between state government and Lt Governor and state government and Union government but also between state government and municipal corporations which is something missing in the existing scheme of things.
“While the Ayushman yojna has not yet been implemented, the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna was implemented rather late. In fact, it is the duty of elected government to provide all basic amenities, clean and pure water, good health system, controlling pollution and better roads,” he said adding but nothing has been done in the past few years by the Kejriwal government.
Gupta sought to make it clear that the 1993 Act of Delhi and the present one are more and less the same and the only difference now is that it is being defined crystal clear so that there is no room for any doubt or ambiguity.
He said the AAP knew it neigh well that it was contesting elections for a union territory state and not a full-fledged one. “If Kejriwal wants to be a Chief Minister with all powers he should better contest from a full-fledged state rather than a UT cadre state,” he added.