Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta on Friday warned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to prepare for a stormy session, which begins next week.
Outlining the Delhi BJP’s strategy, Mr. Gupta said the party would confront the AAP on various issues and leave “no stone unturned in highlighting the government’s failure on different fronts”.
The AAP government has taken many unconstitutional and anti-poor measures that need to be raised in the Vidhan Sabha Session for rectification, said Mr. Gupta.
“The government that boasts of increasing the minimum wages of workers, has committed the illegal act of diverting Rs. 1,150 crore out of Rs. 1,700 crore of Cess Fund contributed by building and other workers since 2002. The fund has been diverted by the AAP government for non-permissible heads such as construction of schools, colleges, anganwadis and canteens,” the LoP said.
Many issues
The BJP leader added that the fund could only be used for 18 welfare schemes listed for the constructions and other workers.
Mr. Gupta added that they would also take the government to task for its “hypocrisy on drug and drinking addiction”.
“It is worried about drug addiction in Punjab. But it is least bothered about fast spreading drug addiction in Delhi. Lakhs of poor and homeless people are taking to drugs because of government inaction and lack of convincing rehabilitation policy. After opening 58 liquor shops in 18 months, it now says there will be no more liquor shops this year,” Mr. Gupta said.
The LoP said the part would also pull up the government for “unconstitutional activity” including a number of its ministers and officers going on foreign tours without seeking approval from the Lieutenant-Governor.
“The Opposition will demand in the House that expenditure incurred on foreign tours must be recovered from the defaulters,” Mr. Gupta said, adding that Mr. Kejriwal’s decision to impose Section 144 outside his residence would also resound in the Assembly.
The Opposition, Mr. Gupta said, would also raise a number of issues falling under Section 89 such as seeking a detailed account as to how it intended to regularise the bills, notifications, orders, circulars and other paper work in view of the recent Delhi High Court judgement, which reiterated the role of the L-G as supreme in matter of administration of the Capital.
