BJP, Congress call AAP’s 49- day governance failure
Mr Maken said the internal fight in the AAP ‘ has seriously affected governance in Delhi. The CM is only focusing on party affairs. There is a total absence of governance’.
As the AAP government completed 49 days in office — the tenure of its first stint, it faced serious flak from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress.
Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay launched a scathing attack on the AAP and said that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had himself given a lot of importance to his earlier 49- day stint in the government. “Therefore, it is natural that we compare his present 49 days of power with the earlier one. The comparison brings out one similarity in both: people being duped by false promises.”
Similarly, the Congress mounted a blistering attack on chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of “total failure” in governance due to “excessive” focus on containing dissidence in the party. Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken said the entire city was suffering due “absence of governance” and particularly hit out at Mr Kejriwal for “deterio- rating” financial position of the government.
“Mr Kejriwal on both occasions came to power on the promise of reducing power tariff to half and free water for all, but like in his earlier stint, this time too he has played a game of statistics,” said Mr Upadhyay.
He alleged that the chief minister has forgotten his promise of making power discoms reduce the tariff to half. Instead, within days of power, he gave a huge amount as subsidy to discoms. “During his last tenure, at least 70 per cent consumers got some benefit of subsidy, but this time hardly 25 per cent of consumers are getting benefited thanks to his jugglery of 400 units,” said Mr Upadhyay.
Mr Maken said the internal fight in the AAP “has seriously affected governance in Delhi. The chief minister is only focusing on party affairs. There is a total absence of governance. Mr Kejriwal has totally failed to deliver.”
The former Union and city minister also accused Mr Kejriwal of failing to “rein in” private power distribution companies and said instead of giving around ` 1,670 crore to the discoms per annum under the power subsidy scheme, the government should have ensured transparency in the sector and passed on the benefits to consumers.