Delhi Dy CM Sisodia slams GNCTD Bill: 'BJP brought bill to stall work done by Kejriwal'

In a fresh attack, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia claimed that Arwind Kejriwal was emerging as an alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scared of which the Bharatiya Janata Party brought about the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Outlining that the party was consulting legal experts, he asserted that it will soon come up with the course of action regarding the Bill.

BJP 'scared' of Kejriwal model

Even on Thursday, during a press conference, Sisodia had slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the GNCT Bill and had claimed that scared of the developments taking place under the Kejriwal model, the bill in question was brought. 

Highlighting that the people all over the country demands a model like the Kejriwal model, he had stated, "From local body elections to assembly elections, the voters are all in need of model like the one the Kejriwal government came up with. Everyone wants free water, free electricity, good schools and hospitals, and since PM Modi and the BJP have nothing to offer to the people, they got scared and came up with this bill."

Praising the initiative taken by the Kejriwal government of home delivery of ration, he had pointed out that the saffron party has never taken any such initiative. Opining that the agenda of the party has always been to gain wrongfully and that they follow a "chori-model" he had questioned, "If you see people struggling in long queues, why not get rations delivered at their doorstep?"

"Not just this, we have brought offices at the doorstep of the public of Delhi too. Now, they don't have to put on hold their chores and run day to day to day government offices," he had said while adding that these were the things that had made the party and the party leaders insecure, and the bill was just to put a stop on all of these initiatives. 

Reminiscing the last 6 years of Kejriwal's chief ministership, he had pointed out that even in the past, efforts had been made to put a stop to the initiatives of the CM. "Kejriwal, however, is a fighter, who did not stop and will not stop," he added. 

GNCTD bill 

The GNCTD bill had been a bone of contention between the Kejriwal government and the Centre government for years, but the controversy gained momentum this month when the central government introduced it in the Parliament. While the Centre throughout maintained that the Bill will authorise the Lieutenant Governor of New Delhi, so the latter can take decisions equivalent to the Delhi government, as is the case with all Union Territories, the Delhi government kept expressing its displeasure sometimes through protests and sometimes through tweets against the bill, calling it BJP's attempt to gain control over the region. The bill was ultimately passed in Parliament on Wednesday.