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The Delhi CM does not person a designated residence. Going by procedure, outgoing CM Kejriwal was expected to relinquish the Civil Lines bungalow allotted to him and caller CM Atishi would past beryllium allotted an authoritative location by the PWD.
The residence allotted to erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Public Works Department (PWD) has been astatine the centre of a governmental conflict betwixt the Aam Aadmi Party connected 1 broadside and the BJP and bureau of the Lieutenant-Governor connected the other. Now, by seemingly circumventing process and past crying foul, CM Atishi and the AAP person scored a spectacular ain extremity astatine a clip erstwhile the enactment is particularly embattled. It has performed poorly successful Kejriwal’s location authorities of Haryana; and it tin ill-afford missteps up of the Delhi assembly elections aboriginal adjacent year. Given the swirl of allegations of indiscriminate spending astir the CM residence, a enactment that has built its authorities connected the anti-corruption plank should person made efforts to stanch this contention astatine the earliest.
The Delhi CM does not person a designated residence. Going by procedure, outgoing CM Kejriwal was expected to relinquish the Civil Lines bungalow allotted to him and caller CM Atishi would past beryllium allotted an authoritative location by the PWD. Instead, she moved into the location vacated by her predecessor. Two days aft she moved into the house, she was forced to vacate it. This has fixed the BJP much fodder to onslaught the AAP. Since past year, the residence has sparked controversy, with some Congress and BJP alleging irregularities successful its renovation, a substance being probed by the Vigilance Department and the CBI. That Opposition leaders are being selectively targeted and investigative agencies weaponised against their leaders by the Centre is an allegation that has been made by non-BJP respective parties. Many of AAP’s elder leaders were arrested and spent months successful jailhouse — including Kejriwal and erstwhile Deputy CM Manish Sisodia — connected corruption charges. This, if thing else, should person made AAP adjacent much cautious astir pursuing the rules successful missive and spirit.
The AAP has been successful bureau successful Delhi for astir a decade. For overmuch of that time, it has been astatine loggerheads with the L-G’s bureau implicit the latter’s interference successful the functioning of Delhi’s elected government. This has taken a toll connected the much-touted Delhi exemplary of governance, focusing connected the payment needs of the mediate people and the poor. But theatrics similar Atishi not occupying the CM’s chair, adjacent arsenic Kejriwal goes to the radical arsenic portion of his “agni-pariksha”, person besides made the enactment look similar an immature one-man-show. With its complicity successful making a upland retired of a mansion, it volition lone look much similar a enactment fumbling for a script.
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