Lekhi slams AAP for launching bus service, BJP files case with ACB

BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said it is shocking that despite having no permission from the Lieutenant Governor to introduce the premium app bus service, the Kejriwal government on May 20 issued a notification stating that the LG approved the app bus service.

Lekhi added that BJP’s Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta has already filed a complaint regarding the matter with the Delhi government’s Anti Corruption Branch (ACB). “We believe that the Kejriwal government is going all out to favour a Gurugram-based app bus aggregator.

 While trying to rush through approvals for this app, the government of Delhi has violated the Motor Vehicle Act of 1988,” she added. She said that the government of Delhi has tried to rush through by invoking emergency provisions under clause (n) of sub-section (3) of Section 66 of the Motor Vehicle Act 1988 which allows such bus service for a short duration under extraordinary circumstances such as a strike by normal operators or a national calamity. In this case, the Kejriwal government has brought it for an indefinite period,” she added. 

She said even the Delhi High Court had in an order directed that before introduction of any new cluster bus service in Delhi the proposal should be placed before the court, but the Kejriwal government chose to ignore even the court’s directives. 

Lekhi also said: “It has also come out that rather than the then minister Gopal Rai or transport department officials, the note which the AAP government presented is more or less same as the one prepared by Ashish Khetan of Delhi Dialogue Commission”.

She further added: “It is important to note that Rai has quit as the transport minister while Khetan has surprisingly gone on a leave even as his scheme is under scanner.”