Centre creating hurdles in AAP govts’ work, says Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said creating hurdles in the functioning of the AAP government is like “betrayal to the country.”

In his 20-minute long speech during the state-level Republic Day function at Chhatrasal Stadium, Mr Kejriwal alleged that his government was stopped from building schools, hospitals and mo-halla clinics in the city.

The CM said that before Independence, there were some people who used to help the British to weaken the fight of the revolutionaries and that today too there are such people who try to do the same to the country.

On several occasions in the past, Mr Kejriwal and his AAP have accused the BJP-led Central government of creating hurdles in the works of Delhi government.

In reference to the AAP government’s Rs 1 crore ex-gratia scheme for the kins of martyrs belonging to Delhi, Mr Kejriwal alleged that he was also prevented from implementing it.

“I want to ask whether this is not betrayal to the country. Why is there politics in it? If any soldier sacrifices his life at the border, he does not see that he is saving the life of a person from BJP or Congress or AAP. Instead, he sacrifices his life while protecting the country. We are stopped from doing our works, which is betrayal to the country,” Mr Kejriwal said.

“Four years ago, Delhiites had changed the politics of the country and installed a new government of its kind in the national capital,” he said, asserting that today the government in Delhi is “a revolution and a movement.”

Mr Kejriwal also accused the BJP-led Central government of committing “sedition” by creating hurdles in the works of Delhi government.