New Delhi: Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it would face a confidence motion in the Assembly Monday to “prove to the people that its legislators can’t be lured away” – a charge it has brought against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Chief Minister and AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal said the BJP was a “serial killer (of governments)”, adding: “They have toppled several governments in the country till date — Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, MP, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya. There is a serial killer in the city who is committing one murder after the other. People choose a government, they topple it.”
According to Kejriwal’s “calculations”, 277 MLAs have switched to the BJP so far. “If they have given Rs 20 crore to each MLA, then they have bought MLAs worth Rs 5,500 crores. That’s why there is inflation as they are using all money to buy MLAs at the expense of the common man,” Kejriwal said.
He said all anti-national forces had come together against Delhi’s AAP government as it was the most popular in the country. “These forces want to break us but our MLAs are together. They will fabricate false cases against us till the Gujarat polls,” he said.
Incidentally, the AAP is making a vigorous pitch in Gujarat for the coming Assembly elections, after winning Punjab earlier this year.
“Operation Lotus has become Operation Keechad (muck) in Delhi as not one MLA has left us,” the AAP leader emphatically said during the one-day special session of the Delhi Assembly on Friday. The session has now been extended by another day due to the impending trust vote.
Kejriwal also said the Central Bureau of Investigation raided his deputy Manish Sisodia’s house for 14 hours but did not find a single penny. “No jewellery was found, no cash was found, no documents of any land or property were found and no incriminating document was found… nothing was found. It was a false raid,” he said of the searches linked to alleged irregularities in Delhi’s liquor policy.
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Source: The Print
