The common man’s Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, and his Cabinet colleagues spent a staggering Rs 1.20 crore on serving tea and snacks to visitors at their offices since assuming office in February 2015, shows an RTI query.



The spendings on tea and snacks between February 2015 and August 2016 were the highest at Kejriwal's offices – one each at the Delhi Secretariat and his Flagstaff Road residence in north Delhi – and added up to Rs 55.85 lakh, according to the General Administration Department data.



At the Delhi Secretariat office, Kejriwal visitors' sipped tea, with snacks, worth Rs 27.25 lakh and at his Camp office he spent Rs 28.60 lakh from the day he became chief minister till August this year, the RTI query revealed.



The chief minister, who takes pride in saving exchequer's money by cutting cost in construction of flyovers and curbing corruption in other welfare projects, also ran

up the second highest electricity bill.



“An amount of Rs 2.23 lakh has been incurred by the department on electricity bill from March 19, 2015 to September 4, 2016 in the official bungalow of Chief Minister, Delhi,” said the GAD department in its reply.



Ignoring all slogans for saving electricity, it was Power Minister Satyendar Jain who consumed the maximum electricity – worth Rs 3.95 lakh - from March 2015 till date, said an RTI reply given by Deputy Secretary (GAD) Amitabh Kundoo on the application of RTI activist Vivek Garg.



When it came to consuming water at official expense, Kejriwal fared better than Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia – the minister with the fattest water bill.



The chief minister consumed water worth Rs 13,920 from March 18, 2015 to October 31, 2016, said Kundoo.



Sisodia’s water charges from March 2015 till date are Rs 1.63 lakh, said the GAD reply, adding that Jain spent Rs 6,172 on water charges during the same period.



The chief minister spent Rs 5.08 lakh “on petrol/oil/lubricants and maintenance of pilot vehicle provided” to him during February 2015 to October 2016.



The RTI revealed that Sisodia spent Rs 8.6 lakh and Rs 6.5 lakh on tea and snack expenses at his office in the Secretariat and Camp office.

