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AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal connected Friday vacated the authoritative residence of the Delhi main curate and moved to the 5, Firozshah Road bungalow successful Lutyens Delhi, which is officially allotted to AAP’s Punjab Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal.
The determination yet again sparked a warfare of words betwixt the AAP, the BJP and the Congress. While the AAP maintained that Kejriwal’s determination to permission the CM residence is successful enactment with his communal antheral image, Opposition parties targeted him for shifting to different posh authorities bungalow.
During a padyatra astatine Chandni Chowk connected Friday, elder AAP person Manish Sisodia, portion addressing the crowd, said: “Arvind Kejriwal is simply a communal antheral and it doesn’t substance whether helium stays successful the main minister’s residence oregon not… Since Arvind Kejriwal has resigned, determination is nary crushed for him to enactment successful the CM residence, truthful helium has forsaken it.”
The Delhi BJP spokesperson, Praveen Shankar, meanwhile, wrote to Kejriwal, demanding that helium should publically pain an affidavit helium had signed connected June 7, 2013.
“Even today, Delhi remembers that affidavit from June 7, 2013, which was distributed door-to-door, wherever Kejriwal had stated that helium would not instrumentality a car, bungalow, oregon security… Kejriwal (should) pain its archetypal transcript extracurricular his caller residence astatine 5, Firozshah Road truthful that the radical of Delhi nary longer question him astir morality,” helium said.
Kapoor added that portion Kejriwal was the CM, it was tenable for him to unrecorded successful a authorities bungalow owed to protocol. However, present that helium is nary longer a CM, his continued residence successful a authorities level contradicts his earlier promises.
“It is inappropriate for an MLA to bask the facilities provided to a subordinate of Parliament,” helium said.
The Congress besides weighed in, with Delhi enactment president Devender Yadav criticising Kejriwal and Sisodia for occupying authorities residences.
Former Deputy CM Sisodia had precocious moved into the government-allotted accommodation of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh. “Kejriwal and Sisodia privation to stay successful elite institution and enactment successful posh areas of the Capital to amusement Delhiites that they inactive wield power, though some look proceedings for the liquor scam,” Yadav said. He besides accused Kejriwal of squandering nationalist funds by renovating the CM residence portion helium was successful office.
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