The Centre has created an “India-Pakistan like situation” with the Delhi government, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday, during his live chat session ‘Talk to AK‘.
In the midst of his bitter fight with the Centre on a range of issues, he also alleged that BJP President Amit Shah was “micromanaging” the functioning of the central probe agency CBI.
Kejriwal conducted a live chat on Sunday at 11 am where he answered questions submitted on the site as well as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
If they would not have made this India-Pakistan situation, then work done by us would have been four times.Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi
Kejriwal touched upon a number of contentious issue including appointment of 21 Parliamentary Secretaries, arrest of a top bureaucrat by the CBI and transfer of officers even as he taunted the Prime Minister saying, he was the “only corrupt Chief Minister in the country” in the eyes of Modi.
I had told him (PM Modi), forgive me if I have committed any mistake, but please end these irritants.Arvind Kejriwal
Flanked by his deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and music composer Vishal Dadlani – the moderator for the programme, Kejriwal alleged that Delhi has become the “victim” of the Centre’s confrontational attitude as AAP MLAs are being arrested on “false charges”.
In PM’s eyes there is only one corrupt CM in the country. They want to break us. They enter into settings with other parties. Have FIRs been filed against Robert Vadra or Sonia Gandhi or Shivraj Singh Chouhan? They are not scared of me, they are scared of my honesty. The full police force is after us.Arvind Kejriwal
Alleging that Centre was trying to paralyse the Delhi administration, Kejriwal said his government will soon bring out ads to recruit experts from across for various departments.
The Chief Minister of Delhi also announced the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s intention to contest elections in Gujarat “if the people want”.
Unlike Modi’s Mann ki Baat speeches, broadcast over radio, Kejriwal’s chat was a session with questions coming in from Punjab, Kerala, Hyderabad and Delhi.
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(With PTI inputs.)
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