Drama has exposed CM: BJP, Cong

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Tuesday alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to end his nine-day sit-in at the Lieutenant-Governor’s office, which they termed a “drama”, has “exposed” him before the people of Delhi.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said that nobody was sure whether Mr. Kejriwal would sit on a dharna again.

Same advice

“The L-G, all along, has been advising the Chief Minister to develop dialogue and cordial relations with the bureaucracy and today [Tuesday] he has repeated the same in the communiqué to the Chief Minister. At the end of the nine days of nautanki [drama] by Mr. Kejriwal, the people fail to understand why he sat on a dharna and what he has achieved,” Mr. Tiwari said.

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken alleged that both Mr. Kejriwal and the BJP, who had been “playing dharna politics in Delhi”, had shifted gears due to waning media attention.

‘Divert attention’

“Now that the entire country is discussing Kashmir development, Kejriwal and BJP leaders of Delhi thought that sitting on Dharna will not be adequately covered by the media. Both decided to wind up their Dharnas! [sic],” Mr. Maken tweeted.

He, further, alleged that both the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP were trying to “divert attention” from their “failures” even as the people in Delhi suffered.