NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday claimed that Delhi now had the “twin towers” of corruption in education and liquor and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy, Manish Sisodia, were building more floors. It also alleged that Delhi had a “reverse Robinhood model” through which the government was taking away money meant for the poor to fill the coffers of the liquor mafia. BJP functionaries also alleged that the Delhi government had escalated the cost of building classrooms by multiple times and projected several school toilets as classrooms to justify the “bloated” bills. At a press conference, party spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla said: “People had asked for ‘pathshala’ (schools), but the AAP government gave them ‘madhushala’ (liquors shops). These had become the twin towers of corruption in the capital, and Kejriwal and Sisodia its builders.” Commenting on Kejriwal’s recent remarks that Sisodia deserved the Bharat Ratna for “reforms” in education, Poonawala said, “Not sure about Bharat Ratna, but he will get a ‘Bhrashtachar Ratna’”. Poonawala pointed out that a retail liquor seller used to earn “merely Rs 33 per bottle” under the old excise policy, but made “a whopping Rs 363 per 750ml bottle” under the policy introduced by the AAP government. He asked AAP not to change the goalpost, but answer specific questions that had not been addressed for the past 38 days. “‘Bhrashtachar’ (corruption) has become their ‘adhikar’ (right), and when an inquiry is done, they cry ‘attyachaar, attyachaar’ (cry foul), and resort to drama and ‘durachaar’ (ill-behaviour) in the assembly,” he alleged. Referring to an incident where a government school student in outer Delhi’s Nangloi was injured after a ceiling fan fell on her head, MP Manoj Tiwari claimed that “semi-permanent structures” were used in many government schools and that was why fans were falling off the ceilings. “So far, AAP’s morality was falling, and now ceiling fans in their schools are also falling,” Tiwari said. Citing a Central Vigilance Commission report sent to the Delhi government’s vigilance department in 2020, the party had claimed that the city government hiked the construction cost by Rs 326 crore, 53% higher than the original tender amount, without floating a new tender.
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