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Arvind Kejriwal Spent ₹ 45 Crore To ‘Beautify’ His Residence, Claims BJP

Posted on the 26 April 2023 by Sandeep Malik

The BJP on Tuesday claimed that approximately ₹ forty five crore became spent at the “beautification” of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal`s reliable house withinside the city’s Civil Lines location and demanded his resignation on “ethical” grounds. While no reliable response became to be had from the Delhi authorities, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hit again on the BJP.

Senior AAP chief Raghav Chadha stated whilst speakme to Times Now that the leader minister’s house became built 75-eighty years in the past in 1942. The Delhi authorities’s Public Works department (PWD), after an audit, had advocated its upkeep.

A senior PWD reliable stated, “It became now no longer upkeep and a brand new shape has arise in location of the vintage shape. His camp workplace is likewise there. The expenditure is around ₹ forty four crore however what’s to be stated that the vintage systems were changed with new ones.” Documents supplied through reassets confirmed that a complete of ₹ forty four.seventy eight crore towards a sanctioned quantity of ₹ 43.70 crore became spent on “addition/alternation” of Kejriwal’s authorities lodging on 6, Flagstaff Road in Civil Lines.

The cash became spent in six tranches among September 9, 2020, to June, 2022, the files confirmed. According to the files, the whole expenditure included ₹ eleven.30 crore on indoors decoration, ₹ 6.02 crore on stone and marble flooring, ₹ one crore on indoors consultancy, ₹ 2.fifty eight crore on electric fittings and appliances, ₹ 2.eighty five crore on hearthplace preventing system, ₹ 1.forty one crore on cloth cabinet and add-ons fitting, and ₹ 1.1 crore on kitchen appliances.

A separate quantity of ₹ 8.eleven crore of the sanctioned quantity of ₹ 9.ninety nine crore became spent at the camp workplace of the leader minister at his reliable house, it confirmed. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva stated in a announcement that ₹ forty five crore became spent at the “beautification” of Mr Kejriwal’s bungalow at a time whilst Delhi became struggling with COVID-19.

“Kejriwal must solution the human beings of Delhi approximately his ethical authority with which he spent around ₹ forty five crore at the beautification of his bungalow whilst maximum of the general public improvement works had been stalled at some point of the Covid segment,” Mr Sachdeva stated.

It has been hooked up that Kejriwal does now no longer stay in a residence however a “Sheesh Mahal” (in opulence), stated the Delhi BJP president and requested the leader Minister to renounce on “ethical” grounds.

He stated the 16-month duration from September, 2020 to December, 2021 became the height Covid segment whilst business sports had been halted and Delhi authorities sales had come down through to much less than half, and it had stopped improvement initiatives mentioning a loss of funds, he stated.

“In that essential segment Kejriwal’s splashing approximately ₹ forty five crore on his residence is a huge evidence of his insensitivity,” Mr Sachdeva alleged. Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri alleged that the “simplicity and honesty” of Mr Kejriwal has been “exposed” and he must right away renounce.

Mr Chadha, a Rajya Sabha MP of the AAP, however, fired again on the BJP over its allegations and stated, “It is a central authority lodging, it isn’t always Arvind Kejriwal’s property.” “Unless you examine the expenditure at the Delhi CM’s house with that of the PM’s house and people of leader ministers in different states, how might you locate whether or not it is much less or more?” Mr Chaddha stated.

He additionally mentioned costs at the top minister and leader ministers in BJP-ruled states to protect the quantity incurred on Mr Kejriwal’s reliable house in Delhi.

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