Modi govt has turned it into ‘India-Pak’ situation: CM on ties with Centre

In the midst of his bitter fight with the Centre on a range of issues, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused the Modi dispensation of turning its ties with Delhi government into an “India-Pakistan” type situation and said absence of obstacles would have helped him achieve four times of what has been done so far in the city.

In the first edition of his ‘Talk to AK’ show, seen as an attempt to increase Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) national connect, Kejriwal touched upon a number of contentious issue including appointment of 21 Parliamentary Secretaries, arrest of a top bureaucrat by CBI and transfer of officers even as he taunted the Indian Prime Minister saying, he was the “only corrupt Chief Minister in the country in the eyes of” Narendra Modi.

The Chief Minister, in the nearly two-hour-long programme that began with a monologue followed by a question and answer session, alleged that the Centre was trying to “break” the AAP government and that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah was micromanaging CBI, adding, “but every dog has his day and all these will soon come to an end.”  Kejriwal, the AAP national convenor, indicated that the party may contest the next assembly polls in Gujarat, alleging that an “atmosphere of suppression” was prevailing there and people wanted to overthrow the BJP regime.

Justifying his government’s spendings on advertisement, he insisted that it spent only Rs 75 crore not 526 crore in the last fiscal and accused the RSS of spreading rumours on the issue, saying it has no parallel in the world in spreading rumours.

“If they would not have made this India-Pakistan situation, then work done by us would have been four times. “I had told him (PM), forgive me if I have committed any mistake, but please end these irritants. A lot of work has been done. But if not for obstacles, the amount of work would have been four times.

“Our Assembly passed 14 bills, including on time-bound services delivery, which had the clause of automatic compensation. It’s been eight months since this passage of this bill. “Remember the Ramlila version of Jan Lokpal Bill? It’s been eight months that we passed it and since then the Centre’s approval is awaited,” Kejriwal said.