New Delhi: On the completion of a month in governance by AAP in Delhi, the opposition BJP has come down heavily on the state government. Saying that the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government has failed the citizens of Delhi, senior BJP leader Harsh Vardhan has put out 30 points, in which the Leader of Opposition in Delhi has trashed the AAP government.
Vardhan, BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the last assembly election, slammed the AAP government for not sticking to its promise of working against corruption. "They had promised to end corruption from Delhi. But what is happening to the Commonwealth Games scam worth Rs 70,000 crore? Are the anti-corruption crusaders wary of Congress pulling down the government?" the Delhi Leader of Opposition asked.
Delhi Leader of Opposition Harsh Vardhan. PTI
"AAP's forming of the government with the help of the most corrupt political outfit has let the voters down in Delhi. The voters have now come to know about the real face of AAP," Vardhan told Firstpost in an exclusive tete-a-tete.
Saying that BJP will on Tuesday march to the Delhi Lieutenant Governor's office for demanding the state Law Minister Somnath Bharti's resignation, Vardhan claimed that his party will not stop protesting until the Delhi government takes strong action against its minister, who is currently under attack from all quarters for his racist actions against women African nationals in the Khirki extension area. However, Vardhan refused to comment on the similar deeds committed by BJP supporters in the same locality two years ago.
In 2011, local BJP workers ransacked houses and shops of African nationals in the area. "Prostitution and peddling of drugs is never welcome but these things cannot be dealt with extra constitutionally," he claimed. While trashing Bharti, Vardhan praised rebel MLA Vinod Kumar Binny. Even though he sympathised with the expelled AAP MLA, the BJP leader claimed that they are not in touch with Binny.
The opposition leader claimed that his party will keep working on exposing the one-year-old political party currently in charge of governing Delhi. "The people have to be shown what AAP actually stands for," Vardhan said. However, the BJP leader claimed that his party will welcome the Jan Lokpal bill that is going to be tabled in the Delhi assembly soon. "I haven't seen the draft of the proposed bill yet but this is a bill for which the resolution was passed during the tenure of Atal Vihari Vajpayee as the prime minister. The proposed bill will at the most have a few amendments. There is very less chance that BJP will oppose the bill," he said. "But we will campaign to make people aware that the original Lokpal was proposed by the BJP only," Vardhan said.
An introspective Vardhan, though, conceded that BJP has to reach out to more people. "Before the election I had only a month and as a result I could not travel to even half of the constituencies," the BJP leader said. "A large number of people were left out yet we managed to achieve the number of seats we have," he said.
The BJP leader is hopeful that the same mistakes will not be repeated during the next Delhi election. "When was the last time did you see a Congress supported government lasts for a long time? It's only that the Congress did not want to make a martyr of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal before the 2014 elections, they supported AAP in Delhi and of course to keep BJP at bay," said another BJP leader in Delhi, who seconds Vardhan.
"The party has to reach out to the last person and and a lot of ground work is required for that," he said. The party, however, declined to use the methods tried and tested by AAP. "We are doing a march on Tuesday but it will not be a violation of law and order," Vardhan told Firspost.
The BJP leader made it clear that the party's next big agenda is to follow the high court petition filed by its Delhi leader Vijender Gupta against Kejriwal and Bharti. Gupta has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court stating that the election campaigns of both Kejriwal and Bharti overshot the expenditure limit as fixed by the Election Commission.
The party claimed that this high expenditure is unconstitutional and amounts to the violation of the Model Code of Conduct. "It's a legal action and we will follow it up legally and will not bring a constitutional matter on the streets," said Vardhan.
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