(This story originally appeared in on May 09, 2015)

NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government is at war with the BJP-led Centre. And the first shot has been fired by the chief minister himself. On Friday, he alleged that the Centre is doing everything to ensure that the AAP government fails."The amount of struggle we did outside the government, we are doing inside it. We struggle every day. No party wants the AAP government to succeed, only the people of Delhi do," Kejriwal said. He was in Bawana to launch Gajendra Singh farmer compensation scheme, a move that seems to be aimed at undoing the damage done at the Jantar Mantar rally.The CM tried to garner sympathy by pointing out that Delhi doesn't have full statehood and yet has to deal with an "uncooperative" Centre. "We have to write to the Union home ministry on many issues. I have written a lot of letters and sent so many proposals but no response has come so far. Whatever letter I send, they just sit on it and do nothing," he said. TOI was the first to report two days ago about the Centre-state friction and Kejriwal writing a letter to Centre about this.Kejriwal elaborated on the nature of conflict. "When the state launched the anti-graft helpline, the Centre said Delhi can't take action against police due to jurisdiction issues. We asked why. After all, corruption is corruption. Last Friday, ACB caught a constable taking bribe. There were three policemen but only one was caught the rest ran away. After he was caught, I can't tell you how much pressure was mounted on us from all quarters that this matter should be transferred to police. Even the police commissioner called the ACB chief for this purpose," the CM said.When this didn't work, Kejriwal said, Delhi Police registered a case of kidnapping of the constable against ACB. He blamed BJP for directing police to do all that. "When ACB produced the constable in the lower court, police cited jurisdiction again. But the Court rejected the plea and sent the constable to police custody and then judicial custody. The central government went to the high court but there too they lost," Kejriwal said.He next talked about how BJP and Congress are two sides of the same coin and how AAP is different. He also justified his demand for full statehood as otherwise the state government will always be crippled in many respects.As the audience, most of them farmers, held on to every word of his, the CM declared that "honesty prevailed". Yet he didn't stop at that: he also threw the gauntlet at Modi sarkar and dared it to do all it can to stop him and his government. "We will still change the face of Delhi over five years," Kejriwal thundered.