The Chief Minister of Delhi made headlines again in his recent statement after the Ministry of Home Affairs’ approval to the Delhi Budget. Kejriwal said he now wants to work with his elder brother Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also said that he wants to work with the Centre.
While addressing Delhi’s budget assembly Kejriwal said he now wants to work with his ‘elder brother Modi Ji’. There would have been ten times more development in Delhi if there would have been no tussles between the Delhi government and the Centre, he added.
“The Delhi government wants to work and not fight. We are tired of fighting and it serves no one. We want to work together with the prime minister, we do not want any tussle” said Kejriwal.
“You are the elder brother and I am the younger brother. I will reciprocate if you support me. If you want to win the heart of the little brother, love him” he said.
He questioned the constitutionality saying, the practice of sending Delhi’s budget for the Centre’s approval is against the democratic lines and needs to be changed. He added, the Centre wanted him to bow down in front of them and that is why they held the budget.
On the other hand, the officials at the Lieutenant Governor’s office said Kejriwal and his aids are, “deliberately making false statements with the sole purpose of misleading the people of Delhi and the media and distracting them from the failures of the AAP Government”.
‘He has been saying that the Centre has blocked a state’s Budget. This is patently false. Delhi is a Union Territory and not a state and therefore it is fully a part and partial of the government of India. Moreover, the Budget has not been blocked,’ as per the statement from the LG office.
Earlier Kejriwal alleged that the Centre has intentionally stopped Delhi’s budget as they want him to bow down in front of them. He also accused the officials at the Centre have their own ‘Ego’.
The officials at the LG office said, fixing the date of the budget without the President’s approval in itself shows the mal-intent of the AAP Government and Kejriwal.
