News Mania Desk / Piyal Chatterjee / 18th November 2024
Following the resignation of Kailash Gahlot, the party’s senior leader and transport minister, Delhi Congress chairman Devender Yadav referred to the Aam Aadmi Party as a sinking ship on Sunday. However, Delhi BJP head Virendra Sachdeva claimed that Gahlot had now brought up a number of the problems his party has always brought up in his letter of resignation. “The AAP government’s failure to clean the polluted Yamuna river and the corruption in the construction of the’sheeshmahal’ were two of the reasons Gahlot gave in his resignation letter to former chief minister and party chief Arvind Kejriwal,” Yadav said.
Kejriwal’s old official mansion, 6 Flagstaff Road, was called “sheeshmahal” by the BJP, which said he spent crores on opulent furnishings and state-of-the-art amenities.
Gahlot has also heaped more charges on Kejriwal by mentioning the “embarrassing and awkward controversies like the ‘sheeshmahal’ which are now making everyone doubt whether we still believe in being the AAM AADMI”, Yadav said.
The AAP has lost the faith and trust of the people, and the party’s disintegration was on expected lines, he added.
On the issue of Yamuna cleaning, Sachdeva claimed, “Despite receiving Rs 8,500 crore from the Centre, no progress has been made. Kejriwal, who claims moral high ground, must answer these allegations instead of deflecting questions.” He said it is shameful that whenever an AAP leader leaves the party, the entire Kejriwal team claims they left under the pressure of the ED or due to greed and personal gain.
Sachdeva further asserted that opportunism and character assassination are the only political strategies used by Kejriwal’s team. The BJP representative went on to say that it is shameful that men like Gahlot and Rajkumar Anand, who were formerly praised as Kejriwal’s trusted supporters, are now being disparaged and portrayed as weak by team Kejriwal as having resigned because they were afraid of the ED.
