Following President Murmu’s sending of a memorandumt from BJP MLAs to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which demanded the removal of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) administration in Delhi, a political storm broke out.
Citing a “constitutional crisis” brought on by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s detention and the hold-up in administrative activity, the BJP had written to the President. They demanded the dismissal of the AAP government.
AAP leaders responded by criticising the BJP harshly. Atishi, the cabinet minister, charged that the BJP was attempting to overthrow the Kejriwal administration by using covert means. She claimed that everything was a plot by the saffron party to prevent them from losing the Assembly election the following year.
“BJP has already accepted defeat in the upcoming Delhi elections. BJP’s only job is to topple the elected government. BJP is afraid of CM Kejriwal,” Atishi said, adding, “This is BJP’s new conspiracy. BJP will get zero seats in Delhi elections.”
Sanjay Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP for the AAP, also took aim at the BJP, stating that his party is ready for the polls.
“If BJP feels that it wants to lose quickly, then it should announce the date of Delhi assembly elections tomorrow itself. We are ready for the elections,” Singh said.
The Delhi government’s inability to form the 6th Delhi Finance Commission and its purported passivity on the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report were underlined in the document that the BJP MLAs presented.
Leader of the Delhi BJP Vijender Gupta claimed in a statement that Kejriwal’s unwillingness to step down following more than four months in jail on corruption-related allegations has resulted in a “paralysis of governance.”
Gupta said, “Kejriwal has refused to resign, creating an unprecedented situation that has led to a complete breakdown of governance in Delhi.”
“The complaint wasn’t about the current 4-month-old government but rather about the governance of the past 10 years. We need a full account of the Delhi government’s performance in the last 10 years,” Gupta said.
He acknowledged that the Home Secretary has been notified of the BJP’s concerns by the President’s secretariat for review.
Since his arrest in relation to the Delhi excise policy case on March 21, Kejriwal has been detained by the courts.
