Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal ‘runs away’ once more after he was confronted by BJP at NDMC assembly over floods

On Wednesday, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) assembly witnessed a heated alternate between Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and the BJP leaders as the previous accused the latter of turning the assembly right into a ‘political battlefield’. The CM then adjourned the assembly and tried to ‘run away’ from answering the questions posed by the BJP members.

This is after the BJP members in the course of the assembly raised the problem of CM Kejriwal participating in ‘political tourism and alliances’ at a time when the nation’s capital was witnessing devastating floods.

Notably, the video of the ruckus went viral over social media wherein CM Kejriwal could possibly be seen having no solutions to questions put forth by the BJP members in the course of the assembly. Later the CM who was chairing the assembly within the absence of Union minister and New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi, adjourned the session for Thursday with none dialogue on the opposite listed issues.

Arvind Kejriwal uncovered in NDMC assembly. pic.twitter.com/1sr6cniqzu

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According to a consultant of the NDMC, Kejriwal presides over council conferences when Lekhi is absent. When neither is current, the classes are presided over by NDMC Chairman Amit Yadav, a nationwide government-appointed bureaucrat.

The BJP council members charged Kejriwal with persevering with to interact in “political tourism” whereas the town was below water in the beginning of the assembly on Wednesday. Satish Upadhyay, the vice chairman of the NDMC and a distinguished member of the BJP, acknowledged that get together members spoke out in regards to the difficulties that New Delhi residents have been having amid the rains and ensuing flooding within the second week of July.

“Members raised concerns over the delay in holding the apex meeting on flood control in Delhi, which played a significant role in worsening the rain and flood situation across Delhi as well as the New Delhi area. Timely desilting of drainage systems was not done, which increased the problems of floods in various areas of NDMC, and the overflow of sewers in MCD areas resulted in backwater flooding the New Delhi area, causing further hardship to the citizens of the New Delhi area. VIP areas like Connaught Place, Bharti Nagar, Golf Link, Lodhi Road were also highly affected due to this mismanagement,” he stated.

Also, BJP Council member Kuljeet Singh Chahal criticized AAP saying that Kejriwal was busy attending alliance conferences with different political events in Patna and Bengaluru at a time when Delhi was flooded. “NDMC organised more than 70 suvidha camps in its area, but Kejriwal, as the area’s representative, has not participated in any camp,” he could possibly be heard saying.

The AAP in the meantime refuted to the allegations and blamed the BJP for not permitting Kejriwal to conduct the session. In the video that has been going viral on social media, Kejriwal can been seen maintaining mum whereas requested by BJP members to reply and later the CM adjourned the assembly.

Kejriwal walked away in May, 2023 too after he was questioned about renovation at CM’s residence

Well, this isn’t the primary time when Kejriwal has opted to maintain shut and ‘run away’ from the questions posed by the BJP. Earlier in May this yr, Kejriwal walked out of a New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) assembly after BJP leaders raised the problem of the renovation of his official residence on the expense of taxpayers’ cash.

BJP chief and NDMC member Kuljeet Singh Chahal raised the problem of the alleged irregularities in the course of the renovation of Kejriwal’s Flagstaff Road bungalow as he narrated the story of a ‘Dhongi Raja’. Chahal apparently referred to CM Kejriwal as a Dhongi Raja and went on to speak in regards to the expenditure on the renovation of Kejriwal’s official residence as he stated that the cash utilized in renovating Kejriwal’s residence was taken from Delhi’s exchequer. He added that marble value Rs 6 crore was utilized in Kejriwal’s residence.

Calling Kejriwal ‘dhongi’ and ‘chor’, Chahal asserted that Kejriwal should give an account of the general public’s cash squandered for his private consolation.

Chahal had began narrating the story of “Dhongi Raja” in CM Arvind Kejriwal’s type. If one remembers, in April, Arvind Kejriwal had focused PM Modi with out naming him, by narrating a narrative a few much less educated King within the Delhi Assembly. Chahal took a cue from the CM and narrated an analogous story in his type a few Dhongi Raja.

“He (Kejriwal) used to say that I will not take a big bungalow, big car or jeep, but has spent every penny of the hard-earned money of the people of Delhi in revamping his house” Chahal stated.

Kejriwal walked away in 2022 additionally after he was questioned about funds used for college growth

Also, in September 2022, Kejriwal was seen operating away from a New Delhi Municipal Corporation assembly after Bharatiya Janata Party’s New Delhi General Secretary and NDMC member Kuljeet Singh Chahal confronted him over the AAP authorities’s claims about faculty growth. Chahal cited an RTI question the place a number of questions have been requested, and one among them was if Kejriwal utilized funds from his MLA quota for growth in NDMC faculties.

Chahal raised questions over the claims made by CM Kejriwal and the Delhi authorities in regards to the growth of the Schools. Chahal cited the RTI in the course of the assembly and questioned Kejriwal over his inactions in direction of the event of the faculties.

Instead of answering Chahal, Kejriwal acquired irked and left the assembly in a hasty method. The video of the assembly had gone viral on social media platforms again then too.