The BJP on Saturday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against radio advertisement featuring Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal “falsely claiming” that the Centre collects “huge revenue” from Delhi but “gives only ₹325 crore” to it.
Requesting that the content of the advertisement be “verified” and doubting whether the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) got it cleared from the Commission as per law, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor argued that these be blocked.
New Delhi MP and the party’s candidate from the constituency Meenakshi Lekhi, in a statement, “condemned” the said advertisement and alleged that Mr. Kejriwal had become a “habitual liar” and that he was “indulging in petty politics for his own political gain”.
“In the radio advertisement the Chief Minister can be heard provoking the people of Delhi by saying that the Centre collects thousands of crores of rupees in revenue from the city but gives back around ₹325 crore to it,” Mr. Kapoor alleged.
‘False content’
“The above cited contents are false and the fact is that the Centre allocates around ₹40,000 to ₹50,000 crore for services, welfare and the betterment of the people of Delhi every year,” Mr. Kapoor alleged further.
The Central government, Mr. Kapoor argued, “maintains” the Delhi police through an expenditure of ₹7,881 crore, annually, for the maintenance of law and order in the city and spends around ₹40,000 crore on the Delhi metro, road infrastructure, the maintenance of the Yamuna river and running Delhi University and several centrally-funded hospitals which “directly benefit the people of Delhi.”
“I therefore request you to review the contents of this advertisement and if any objection is found valid then the Aam Aadmi Paty should be asked to withdraw the advertisement or it must be blocked,” Mr. Kapoor demanded.
