Two days ahead of the municipal elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress of cutting power and water supply in many areas to defame his government.
Complaints received
“We have received complaints from several areas that local BJP and Congress workers are stealing oil from transformers to facilitate power cuts. In areas like Sangam Vihar they dumped bricks into the sewer line so that the roads get flooded,” said Mr. Kejriwal.
He added that though his political opponents had a problem with him and his party it was unfair to drag the people of Delhi into this fight.
“Disconnect the power and water connection in my house if you want to, but leave my people of Delhi alone,” the Chief Minister said.
‘Call the helplines’
He also said that if people experience power cuts and shortage of water, they should call the government helpline to get the problem fixed.
On Tuesday, private power distribution company BSES had alleged that oil was stolen from at least 70 of its transformers, causing power outage in different parts of the Capital.
‘BJP hiding behind Modi’
Mr. Kejriwal, meanwhile, blamed the BJP to be shielding 10 years of inaction in the municipalities behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “When you ask the BJP, why wasn’t garbage cleared in Delhi during their tenure in the civic bodies, they start screaming, ‘Modi, Modi’. The excuse of all the inaction is Modi,” he said.
According to him, the BJP’s strategy would not work as people knew that the three municipal corporations would not be run by Mr. Modi, but local leaders of the BJP who have failed in their job in the past 10 years.
The Chief Minister also said that those who vote for the BJP should know that the vote is going for a Delhi with “filth, dengue and chikungunya” for the next five years.
Alleges inaction
He added that if the BJP really wanted to do something, its leaders in the municipal bodies could have done so in the last 10 years.
