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Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday lashes out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi Assembly over the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, accusing them of financial mismanagement and misgovernance.
BJP MLA Satish Upadhyay from Malviya Nagar alleged that AAP was attempting to divert attention from the report by invoking Bhagat Singh and BR Ambedkar. He criticized the party for failing to restore a vandalised statue of Bhagat Singh in Malviya Nagar.
He also said that to divert attention from CAG reports, they (AAP) talked about portraits of Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh. In Malviya Nagar, there is a park named after Bhagat Singh Ji, where a statue of him installed in the park has remained in vandalised condition for the past three years.
“If Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi and their party respected the freedom fighters, they would have got these statutes repaired. But they only used them for politics. Yesterday, we got a cloth cover put on the statue. We will install a new statue or restore this current statue in the next month,” he added further.
Speaking with the media later outside the assembly, Upadhyay said a report on the previous government’s shortcomings will come in the next three months, and action will be taken accordingly.
“There was a good discussion on the CAG report; everyone has given their views on it… The shortcomings of the previous government will now be told to the committee, after which a full report will come in 3 months, and action will be taken on it… Our assembly Speaker is working as per the rules, nothing being done in an unconstitutional manner…”
Echoing similar concerns, BJP MLA Kailash Gahlot while talking to ANI emphasized the need for accountability, saying, “There was a discussion held on CAG report today. The Assembly Speaker has announced that the committee will submit its first report within 3 months….If the local residents from there (Najafgarh) want the name to be changed, then there should be no objection and the name should be changed…”
Meanwhile, BJP MLA Shikha Rai described the CAG report as “revealing heart-wrenching facts” that demonstrated how the AAP government “compromised on quality and toyed with people’s lives.”
