Citing a CAG report which said the Delhi Government was running in profit, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the numbers were the “biggest proof of its honesty”. AAP’s honesty has deprived the opponents of their sleep, he said.
“They (CAG) have said that ever since the AAP Government formed in Delhi, the Government has been running in profit. This is the biggest proof of the honesty of the AAP Government. This honesty isn’t letting our opponents sleep in peace,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the Kejriwal Government has been able to keep the national Capital a revenue surplus State because of “honest politics”. “This is the ‘Kejriwal Model of governance’.
When every State Government is facing a huge revenue deficit, it’s only and only the Arvind Kejriwal Government that is in running revenue surplus since 2015. Honest politics brings prosperity,” he tweeted. However, the CAG pointed out that Delhi has been able to maintain a revenue surplus because certain expenditures are covered by the Centre.
The report further declared that Delhi’s revenue expenditure increased by 50.47% from Rs 26,343 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 39,637 crore in 2019-20.
The same amount increased by 7.56% from Rs 36,852 crore in 2018-19 to Rs 39,637 crore in 2019-20. The share of committed expenditure in total revenue expenditure ranged from 34.41% to 35.81% over the last five years.