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Claims and counterclaims flew heavy and accelerated betwixt the AAP, absorption parties and the Office of the Lt-Governor aft Chief Minister Atishi Wednesday was asked to vacate the Delhi CM’s Civil Lines residence by officials of the Public Works Department (PWD) — which she heads — 2 days aft she moved in.
Delhi Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj questioned the determination and said it “reeked of conspiracy”. He besides asked if an inventory of Raj Niwas was done by the PWD earlier the L-G moved successful in 2022. In a station connected X, Bharadwaj wrote, “With owed respect, I would similar to inquire L-G Sahib whether the aged L-G handed implicit the keys of Raj Niwas to PWD and if an inventory was done earlier the caller L-G shifted in?”
Raj Niwas officials, however, said the curate was uninformed astir processes. “The ownership of the President House, Raj Bhavans and Raj Niwas prevarication with the President, the Governor and Lt-Governor, respectively, and not with the CPWD/PWD oregon immoderate different agency, dissimilar successful the lawsuit of PM, CMs, ministers, judges oregon different authorities houses… With regards to the shifting of L-G V K Saxena, inventory of Delhi Raj Niwas was duly conducted by the L-G Secretariat, earlier helium moved in. Raj Niwas remains an unfastened location for anyone and everyone to sojourn ever since Saxena took over,” said an official, adding that 65,000 radical person visited Raj Niwas since June 2022.
Officials successful the CM’s office, successful response, said each authoritative residences yet belonged to the radical of the country. “People of this state elite a typical to unrecorded successful these residences and enactment for their benefit… It is the archetypal clip successful the past of the state that an unelected typical has thrown retired an elected typical from her authoritative residence. The 65,000 radical who visited the L-G location volition beryllium ashamed to cognize their elected CM has been thrown out,” an authoritative said.
While the AAP accused authorities officials of “defying protocol” to deliberately withhold allotment of the CM’s residence to Atishi, alleging they were acting nether unit from the BJP, the Delhi BJP and the Delhi Congress questioned the hurry to displacement into the bungalow.
Former CM Arvind Kejriwal vacated the 6, Flagstaff Road, residence and moved to bungalow no. 5 connected Ferozshah Road connected October 4. The aforesaid day, Atishi’s bureau had written to the PWD to allot the residence to her. She moved into the CM residence connected October 7. The BJP had criticised her for moving successful without PWD approval.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh alleged “BJP’s caller program is to instrumentality implicit the CM’s residence”. He besides rejected the BJP’s claims that keys to the residence had not been handed over.
The Delhi BJP welcomed the action. “The PWD should behaviour a videographic survey of this gathering and contiguous the study to the radical of Delhi,” Delhi BJP main Virendra Sachdeva said.
He besides alleged AAP was making “hurried efforts” to inhabit the bungalow without adhering to authorities allotment rules. “This intelligibly indicates determination is thing wrong ‘sheesh mahal’ that Kejriwal wants to fell — not lone from the radical but besides from the instrumentality and PWD.”
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AAP’s nationalist confederation spouse Congress, Devender Yadav said, “The PWD should person made a video of the luxurious facilities wrong the bungalow to exposure Kejriwal’s dual face, arsenic helium had projected himself arsenic a ‘common man’ earlier gullible voters, but enjoyed the fruits of powerfulness to the fullest astatine the CM residence, which was rebuilt astatine a staggering cost.”
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