BJP urges president to dismiss Delhi’s AAP government
This showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party has already accepted defeat in the upcoming Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party said.
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A delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu and urged her to dismiss the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi.
The legislators, led by Leader of the Opposition in Assembly Vijender Gupta, submitted a memorandum to the president listing concerns about the functioning of the Delhi government.
Gupta said that the Aam Aadmi Party has been mired in several alleged scams that have “severely impacted the integrity and functioning of the government”. He pointed out that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is in jail on corruption charges related to the liquor policy case being investigated by central agencies.
“The [liquor policy] scam has not only shaken public confidence but also crippled the decision-making process at the highest level of the Delhi government,” Gupta said on social media.
The BJP claimed that there has been a governance impasse in the national capital as a result of the chief minister being in jail for more than four months.
Kejriwal’s refusal to resign from the post, Gupta claimed, had led to a constitutional crisis. “This has led to a complete breakdown of governance in Delhi,” he said.
The delegation also said that the Aam Aadmi Party government’s failure to constitute the Sixth Delhi Finance Commission “represents a serious violation” of constitutional provisions that mandate the formation of a...
