arvind kejriwal news: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal slams Bommai of steering a 40% commission govt
The southern state is due for assembly polls early next year, and the ruling BJP has been trying to defend itself as accusations of demands for a cut in government contracts swirl around the eight-month old Bommai regime.
On a day’s visit to Bengaluru to address a farmers’ rally, organized by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), Kejriwal sought to further rub salt into the BJP’s wounds by asking Karnataka’s voters to choose among the party (BJP) that demands 40% commission, the one (Congress) that would take 20% commission or the one that is ruling Delhi with a 0% commission.
Delhi has a corruption-free government under the AAP, the chief minister said, urging the people to visit his city-state and get a first-hand experience of government schools and hospitals. He described them as a “magic,”, and said the government schools in Delhi have all the infrastructure including good auditoriums, lifts and swimming pools, and last year, about four lakh students shifted from private schools to government schools. Delhi’s government schools have reported 99.7% pass percentage in public exams. Kejriwal promised to replicate the Delhi model of governance in Karnataka if AAP was voted to power.
The Delhi chief minister, sporting a green shawl around his neck like farmers do in Karnataka, targeted the BJP and said it was a party embraced by goondas, citing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which a union minister’s son drove his SUV into protesting farmers.
The BJP regime unleashed I-T, CBI and ED sleuths on him, his deputy Manish Sisodia, his ministers and his 20 MLAs, but these officials failed in their efforts to frame them. They did not even spare his bedroom, but all that they got was a muffler, he said, adding even PM Narendra Modi has reckoned him as an honest chief minister, Kejriwal said.
In a city of two crore population, the AAP government has created magic: the poor don’t have to pay for electricity and drinking water, and women get to travel free of cost in city buses. Though the city has many large private hospitals, people flock to government hospitals in big numbers. “I don’t know politics, all that I know is to deliver good governance.”
Kejriwal compared the BJP with the king Ravana, and said the ruling party pushed through three farm laws in a show of arrogance ignoring all advice just like Ravana did when he abducted Sita. And the party ended up paying a heavy price with its electoral rout in Punjab, he said.
The AAP and KRRS have come together to fight the assembly elections in Karnataka.
