NEW DELHI : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal alleged there are talks that the Centre may dissolve Delhi Assembly and convert the city into a full Union territory (UT), asserting that any such move will face stiff resistance from residents.

Speaking in the assembly on the Tecond day of the monsoon session, the Delhi chief minister  claimed  that there are talks that they BJP will convert Delhi into a full Union Territory and there will be no next elections. By hating Kejriwal, you have started hating the country. CM said, “They fear the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and that is why they do not want elections. Kejriwal will keep coming and going. Kejriwal is not important, but if you stop conducting elections and shred the Constitution, this country will be finished.”

“The BJP is not able to control the AAP so there are talks that they want to dissolve the Delhi Assembly. But if this happens, Delhi’s public will not keep sitting silently. Delhiites will come on streets against the move”, he asserted. He further said that the central government has unleashed its agencies ED, CBI and police to go after after AAP ministers and MLAs because it “fears” the ruling party in Delhi. Other parties in the country are breaking away or bowing down (before BJP). The AAP is the only party which makes them wet their pants.

Speaking during a discussion on delay in MCD elections, Kejriwal said that BJP is threatening people that they have ED, CBI and police and they will get legislative assembly elections cancelled too by making Delhi a full Union territory. He said that Satyendar Jain gave the Mohalla Clinic’ model to the world and Delhi is the only city where world-class treatment is offered completely free for all. BJP wants to slander AAP leaders so people perceive us that we are like them (BJP), that is why Satyendar Jain was sent to jail without cause and yet they fail to prove an iota of corruption in the case.

“Does Manish Sisodia look like a thief to anyone? The BJP is after him now. They are saying they’ll arrest him in August. I say it loud and clear – this man ensured a bright future for 18 lakh children, the day he is sent to jail will be the darkest in our history”, the CM alleged in the House.

The CM invoked a dialogue from Bollywood movie Deewar’ and said that the BJP is threatening Delhiites that they have ED, CBI, Income Tax department, and Delhi Police, asking them what do they have? “Two crore Delhiites say in unison that they have their son, Kejriwal.  Kejriwal said that there are notices against some AAP MLAs like Atishi, Amanatullah and also the party volunteers. “All AAP volunteers, MLAs, ministers should be ready to go to jail, we do not fear them (BJP). People like Satyendra Jain and Manish Sisodia who are bravely fighting against the BJP are the Bhagat Singhs of our times”, Kejriwal said.
“I was invited to Singapore to explain the Delhi Model to the world but these people have thrown my file into some lost corner to stop me. I think this is the first instance in the country where a Prime Minister is himself placing hurdles in a chief minister’s foreign trip clearance”, Kejriwal alleged.He also alleged that last year, he was invited to a conference in Copenhagen and asked to speak about the improvement in the air quality in the city but then too the Centre did not let him attend the conference.
(With Bureau inputs)

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