Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 25

Delhi BJP today brought out a citizen chargesheet against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and took out a march from Pandit Pant Marg to AAP office at Rouse Avenue, demanding his resignation.

As 11 AAP MLAs are involved in criminal cases and a number of scams have happened in the government, the party does not deserve to rule the state, the BJP said.

Presenting a five-point chargesheet, BJP president Satish Upadhyay said that Kejriwal had not only failed as a Chief Minister but also as a party president.

The first point raised by Upadhyay is of atrocities on women. Out of the 70 election promises of Kejriwal, woman security was the most hyped but once in power he has just ignored it and no concrete programme has been launched. The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has become a political playground, matters of domestic violence by MLAs and harassment of women coming with complaints of local problems to the MLAs have become a routine.

He also promised cheap power and free water, but the common man is unable to enjoy the benefits.

Upadhyay said the Delhi Government had in February promised to waive pending water bills of 11 lakh consumers, but the Delhi Jal Board has in an RTI reply informed that the benefit reached only 2,28,000 consumers

The chargesheet also raised the issue of anarchism and misgovernance saying that before coming to power, Kejriwal talked of swaraj, good governance and end of VIP culture, but he has created a situation of conflict with the Centre. The administrative work has thus come to a standstill.

AAP has also adopted the policy of communal frenzy. Its MLAs - Amanatullah Khan and Jarnail Singh - have faced allegations of trying to spread communal hatred. In an Urdu Academy function, the words used by Amanatullah Khan constituted 'Rashtra Droh'.

Kejriwal came to power levelling major charges of corruption against the former Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, but he himself has chosen the same ways, the chargesheet said.