The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is “betraying the people” of the Capital by hindering the Delhi Metro’s Phase-IV through addition of “new conditions” related to its financing, the city unit of the BJP said on Tuesday.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said that new conditions related to the project, which had been conveyed by the AAP government to the Centre, were being imposed by the Arvind Kejriwal-led government, resulting in further delay for the long-pending project.
‘Two new conditions’
“The Delhi government has added two conditions connected with the sharing of operational loss and liability to pay loan from outside... it is now demanding that the operational loss be borne equally by the Centre and the Delhi government,” Mr. Tiwari said.
“Besides, the Delhi government has added one more condition... that if the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is unable to repay the loan, the Delhi government will not pay any outside loan,” he said.
The North East Delhi MP alleged that Mr. Kejriwal was “deliberately” delaying the project so that the Centre could be accused for it and he “may be able to get cheap popularity in the media”. Through such tactics, Mr. Tiwari said, Mr. Kejriwal is “working against the interest of the people of Delhi”.
“By providing connectivity to the remote rural areas of Delhi... the people will get great relief, but the AAP has not forgotten its defeat in the municipal elections and is taking revenge on the people of Delhi,” he claimed.
