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CHANDIGARH, February 29: Former Delhi Chief Minister Ms Sheila Dixit today said that the people of Delhi were paying a heavy price for the confrontationist attitude of Arvind Kejriwal. “People of Delhi are regretting as why did they make him the CM as he always says something and does something else”, she remarked.
She said, the development had come to a standstill and the Delhi Chief Minister was simply trying to wriggle out of the situation by trying to blame others when he should own the responsibility. “This government has not laid down a single new brick and has only been trying to take credit for what we did during the last 15 years”, she said.
Addressing a press conference here today, she cautioned the people of Punjab not to get deceived by his promises which he never means to fulfil. “There is a huge gap between what he says and what he does”, she said, while remarking, “he preaches something and practises something else”.
She was accompanied by senior party leaders including former Punjab Chief Minister Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi and MLA Balbir Sidhu.
The former Delhi Chief Minister pointed out, while the Safai Karamcharis in Delhi are on strike for last six months as the AAP government is not able to pay their salaries, the same (AAP) government has allocated Rs 520 crores for its publicity. She said, compared to that the Congress budget for publicity averaged around Rs 25 crores per year only.
Contradicting Kejriwal’s claims of representing the ‘aam aadmi’ (the common man), Ms Dixit said, while there was rampant unemployment everywhere and those working were not getting their wages like the safai karamcharis, Kejriwal raised his and his MLAs’ salary by 400 percent which was unprecedented and unheard in history.
She asked the AAP government to list one single achievement during the last one year. She disclosed that Kejriwal was wrongly trying to take credit for reducing the cost of the construction of a flyover by over a hundred crore rupees.
“IN fact it was during our time only that we had redesigned the particular flyover and brought down the costs”, she said, adding, there were several other similar examples where Kejriwal was seeking credit for the previous Congress government’s achievements.
Lashing out at Kejriwal’s confrontationist attitude, she said, people of Delhi were regretting what they had done one year ago. She said, Kejriwal is habitual of playing a blame game by either trying to blame the Lieutenant Governor or the Police Commissioner or the Central government. “Even I worked within such limitations and I never complained while making Delhi a world class city”, she pointed out, while cautioning people in Punjab not to get carried away by his tempting problems which never see the light of the day.
