AAP mentioned the federal government ought to give attention to the a number of scams going down in BJP-ruled states.
New Delhi:
The bills made to renovate Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s bungalow shall be probed by the nation’s high auditor, sources mentioned as we speak, after a months-long controversy. The Union House Ministry has ordered the audit following a letter from Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena alleging gross irregularities, sources mentioned. Denying allegations of irregularities, Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Get together has accused the Centre of targetting political opponents.
“The order for a CAG inquiry into the expenditure within the reconstruction of the Chief Minister’s residence is exposing the desperation, cynicism and dictatorship of the BJP. Pissed off by the successive electoral defeats in Delhi, the BJP is plotting not solely to defame the trustworthy authorities of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, but additionally to seize energy right here from behind the scenes,” learn a press release from AAP.
The federal government, AAP added, ought to as an alternative give attention to the a number of scams going down within the BJP-ruled states.
Sources mentioned the Comptroller and Auditor Normal of India, or CAG, will conduct the “particular audit” into the “administrative and monetary” irregularities within the renovation.
The letter had alleged gross monetary irregularities within the reconstruction of the constructing, situated in north Delhi’s Civil Strains.
To start out with, within the identify of renovation — often involving simply addition or alteration — a full-fledged development and re-construction was carried out by the Public Works Division, the LG has alleged.
The PWD had not obtained sanction for the work, together with demolition of a pre-existing constructing. It had not even ascertained possession of the premises, sources mentioned.
The price — from an estimated 15-20 crore — had gone as much as Rs 53 crore, the LG had written.
The BJP’s Sambit Patra had earlier alleged that Mr Kejriwal’s residence had been fitted with costly marble from Vietnam, pre-fabricated wood partitions and curtains that price lakhs of rupees every. One curtain alone price greater than Rs 7.94 lakh, he mentioned.
AAP had alleged that the lodging earmarked for Mr Kejriwal was unfit to stay. Get together spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar had shared video of dilapidated rooms the place plaster was coming off partitions and a ceiling that suffered huge seepage.
मित्र डॉनल्ड ट्रम्प की 3 घंटे की विज़िट के लिए 80 करोड़ खर्च दिया। गुजरात और मध्यप्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री अपने लिए 200 करोड़ के हवाई जहाज़ ले लेते हैं। मजाल है कोई चैनल इस पर डिबेट कर ले।
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“The Prime Minister, who calls himself a fakir, is getting a home constructed for himself with Rs 500 crore. Rs 90 crore was spent in renovating the home the place he’s residing now,” AAP’s Sanjay Singh had mentioned.
At the moment, AAP mentioned the Central companies ought to examine the Vyapam rip-off in Madhya Pradesh, the Chanda rip-off in Ayodhya Ram temple and the rip-off of the Chief Minister of Assam as an alternative.
