Launching a scathing attack on the AAP government for not fulfilling its poll promises, Delhi Congress chief spokesperson Sharmistha Mukherjee said on Monday that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s stan
Launching a scathing attack on the AAP government for not fulfilling its poll promises, Delhi Congress chief spokesperson Sharmistha Mukherjee said on Monday that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s stand on holding referendum on statehood issue was unconstitutional as a 13-judge bench of the Supreme Court had ruled in the Kesavananda Bharti case in 1973 that “no law can be made for a referendum or a Constituent Assembly.”
On the full statehood issue, Ms Mukherjee said, “Mr Kejriwal is once again raking up the full statehood issue for Delhi to divert the attention of the people as the 21 AAP MLAs, made parliamentary secretaries to ministers in an unconstitutional manner, are set to lose their membership of the Assembly.”
“Mr Kejriwal comes up with fresh allegations against the lieutenant-governor, the Prime Minister, bureaucrats and the Congress party to cover up the failures of his government. He had promised to give free water and power at half the rates to the people of Delhi, but now water and power have become so scarce that such a shortage has never before happened in Delhi.”
The party also attacked the Delhi government for appointing a PR agency. “Despite the Delhi government having an information and publicity department with 80 staff members on the rolls with high salaries to publicise the activities of the various ministries and departments of the government, it has engaged a private PR agency, Perfect Relations, to manage the government publicity as the image of the Kejriwal government has been plummeting fast due to its inefficacy and non-performance.”
She said Rs 200 crore of the people’s hard-earned money has been earmarked for the PR agency’s work to give a makeover to the Kejriwal government, mired in scandals and controversies.
