New Delhi [India], February 25 (HBTV): Tensions escalated in the Delhi Assembly as Speaker Vijender Gupta suspended 12 AAP MLAs, including Leader of Opposition Atishi and AAP MLA Gopal Rai, amid uproar ahead of the tabling of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report.
As soon as the Lieutenant Governor (LG) began his address, AAP MLAs started raising slogans, leading to chaos in the House. Before the LG’s speech, AAP members also chanted ‘Jai Bhim’ slogans. The MLAs were subsequently suspended from the House.
Following their suspension, the MLAs staged a protest outside the Assembly, raising slogans against the state government while carrying posters of Babasaheb Ambedkar.
The newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Delhi, under Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, is set to present 14 CAG reports on the second day of the eighth legislative assembly session. The reports are expected to highlight financial irregularities during the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.
Speaking to ANI, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said, ‘The CAG report is a list of AAP’s black deeds. We had promised the people of Delhi during the elections that those involved in corruption would have to answer. Today, we hope that after the LG’s speech, when the CAG report is tabled, all their wrongdoings will come before the people of Delhi.’
Earlier in the day, Delhi Minister and BJP leader Parvesh Verma said the CAG report would expose AAP’s ‘corruption’, revealing the extent of its misdeeds and how taxpayers had been taken advantage of.
‘The CAG report we have been eagerly waiting for is finally here. Today, we will uncover the depth of AAP’s corruption. The people of Delhi have been looted, and taxpayers have been exploited. Once the report is out, I will provide all the details,’ Verma said.
Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa also commented on the reports, stating, ‘Today, the CAG report exposing Arvind Kejriwal’s government’s scams will be tabled in the Delhi Assembly. Arvind Kejriwal had kept it hidden for the last three years. Fourteen such reports will be presented one by one. He concealed the report all this time because he knew it would expose his loot, scams, and corruption.’
(ANI)