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AAP main Arvind Kejriwal connected Tuesday. (PTI Photo)
Aam Aadmi Party main Arvind Kejriwal Thursday accused Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar of mismanaging the Delhi Assembly elections and not taking enactment against Model Code of Conduct violations due to the fact that helium is “seeking a occupation post-retirement”.
Kejriwal’s outburst came during a property league connected his connection astir Haryana “poisoning” Delhi’s h2o and the Election Commission of India’s announcement to him. The ECI connected Thursday wrote to Kejriwal, saying that his allegation that the BJP-ruled Haryana authorities had poisoned Delhi’s h2o proviso from the Yamuna stream was prima facie “promoting disharmony and enmity betwixt antithetic groups”. The ECI asked him to taxable grounds to enactment his allegation by 11 americium connected Friday.
When asked astir the ECI’s letter, Kejriwal said, “Respectfully, I privation to inquire the ECI wherefore they can’t spot however wealth and bedsheets are being distributed crossed the city… We told them whose location wealth was stashed in, but they did not spot anything. The ECI is engaging successful politics. Why? Because Rajiv Kumar wants a occupation post-retirement. I privation to archer him that past volition not forgive him. The messiness helium has made of the Election Commission, nary 1 has managed before.”
“I cognize they volition enactment maine successful jailhouse successful 2 days, fto them bash it. The benignant of connection successful the missive does not suit the EC. If they privation to enactment successful politics, contention from 1 spot successful Delhi. There is unfastened goondagardi, wealth is being distributed openly… This benignant of predetermination has ne'er been seen anyplace successful India. I volition nonstop 3 (bottles filled with h2o from the Yamuna) to them. We person 20 bottles full… They tin portion it during a property conference. We volition concede that we person made a mistake,” helium added.
On Wednesday, successful his effect to the EC’s archetypal missive asking him to explicate his comments, Kejriwal cited Delhi Jal Board CEO Shilpa Shinde’s letter, which stated that the ammonia attraction successful Yamuna h2o is 7 parts per cardinal (ppm). An “indiscriminate discharge of concern waste” by the Haryana government, helium said, was the “root cause” of the contamination.
“It cannot beryllium denied that harmless drinking h2o is 1 of the astir basal and indispensable requirements of immoderate civilized nine and raising an contented for the nine with respect to the aforesaid — cannot beryllium termed arsenic committing an offence,” helium wrote.
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