Arvind Kejriwal charges Congress & BJP with collusion to disrupt Delhi Assembly
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal charged today that the Congress and BJP had acted in collusion to disrupt business on the first day of the Delhi Assembly meet, soon after a stormy session saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress members vociferously demanding the resignation of AAP's Law Minister Somnath Bharti for his alleged misbehaviour with women from Uganda and Kenya at Khirki Extension in South Delhi some weeks ago. The Delhi government was set to table the much vaunted Jan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly.
Kejriwal, speaking to the media later, insinuated that the collusion was done deliberately after an FIR named both Union minister Veerappa Moily and RIL chief Mukesh Ambani. His government has set a significant store by the passage of the Bill this session. Assembly Speaker MS Dhir had to adjourn the proceedings three times after the BJP decisively foiled business in the House function each time it resumed. Party legislators trooped into the well of the House and shouted anti-government slogans.
BJP legislators Kulwant Rana and RP Singh heckled Bharti and tore papers kept on his table soon after the House met, even as Congress legislators joined the chorus and demanded Bharti's resignation. Meanwhile, Congress legislator Asif Muhammad Khan, legislator from Okhla area, created a ruckus demanding an SIT probe into the Batla House shooting. He climbed atop the Speaker's podium and tore papers kept there. He then approached Kejriwal and broke the microphone on his desk before tearing the papers kept on his table, even as fellow legislators joined the general chorus demanding Bharti's resignation, not to be outdone by the BJP. They were joined by BJP men Kulwant Rana and RP Singh who heckled Bharti and tore papers on his table.
"The Congress is not supporting the AAP, it is supporting the BJP. That was patently clear in the manner in which they took turns to disrupt the House," Delhi CM Kejriwal charged.
