Taking a dig at the Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement to improve roads, Delhi BJP on Sunday said that the announcement made by the Chief Minister to improve the roads of Delhi at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore in the next one year is gimmick announcement to to start a new controversy.

“The BJP has been continuously saying that Kejriwal government makes announcements without administrative and financial approval and when there are obstacles in it, it accuses the central government and the Lieutenant Governor.

It is a matter of surprise that Chief Minister Kejriwal did not consider it necessary to take the approval of the Finance Department or the Lt. Governor before announcing the scheme of Rs. 4500 crores,” Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said. The Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also criticised the Kejriwal saying he is the only chief minister who makes only announcements and did nothing. “Most of the time he is indulged in petty politics,” he said

 “Sometimes he promises to make Delhi like the roads of Paris, sometimes showing dreams of London and Singapore roads, while the ground reality is that the condition of Delhi's roads is dilapidated.  The Supreme Court has termed the roads as a major cause of Delhi's pollution. In the last eight years, far from building new roads in Delhi, the Delhi government could not even repair the existing roads,” Bidhuri added.

“This government has a plenty of time to hold protests and abuse the higher authority but they do not have time to serve the people of Delhi. After the rainy season in October last year, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had claimed that all the roads in the capital would be repaired in a month, but the people of Delhi are breathing dust due to the bad condition of the roads,” Bidhuri added.

Bidhuri said that now Chief Minister Kejriwal has given a new bluff of repairing the roads from April. “The Chief Minister has probably forgotten that the rainy season starts in Delhi from May-June and it is not possible to build roads in such a situation.

Therefore, if the intention of the government was to repair the roads, then this work should have started immediately, but the government has been trying to mislead the public by making only paper plans and is doing the same now,” he added.

As per the report titled “Delhi Road Safety Report: Data to Action", 18 crash hot spots that are infamous for the high number of fatalities from traffic accidents and requires safety interventions to lower the mortality count.