With Delhi set to go to polls on Wednesday, Parliament on Monday saw sharp attacks by BJP MPs against AAP government claiming it "looted" the national capital and turned it into a "dirty slum."
In the Lok Sabha, South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri alleged that the AAP government "looted" the national capital and turned it into "hell."
Initiating the debate on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address, Bidhuri read out a list of initiatives of the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused the AAP government of depriving the people of Delhi of benefits like housing, transport, healthcare among others.
Bidhuri also asked the Congress members to support him and reminded the main opposition party of the remarks that the AAP leaders had passed about their leaders.
He listed out development work such as building biodiversity parks along the banks of the Yamuna River, expressways to ease traffic congestion and infrastructure projects carried out by the central government in the national capital.
"Such work is possible only if God comes down on Earth or such miracles can be done by Modi ji and no one else," Bidhuri said.
Assembly elections are scheduled in Delhi for February 5 and counting of votes will be held on February 8. The elections are a triangular fight between AAP, BJP and Congress.
"AAP government has looted Delhi and turned it into a hell. On February 8, the BJP will win more than 50 seats under Modi's guidance and form a government in Delhi and fulfil the national capital's dream of being a world-class city," Bidhuri said.
The BJP leader accused the AAP government of creating hurdles in development work by not allowing the implementation of schemes such as the Ujjwala Yojana, which provides cooking gas to women, non-allotment of flats built under the PM Awas Yojana for the poor, and refusing to give its monetary share for various development projects in the national capital.
Bidhuri also reminded the Congress that the AAP caused obstacles in building a skill development centre in Delhi's Jonapur village, for which the foundation was laid by the then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
"You are also fighting them and should support us. Remember what they had said about your leader," Bidhuri said, in an apparent reference to AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal's remarks against former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Attacking former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bidhuri said he had come to power promising to lead a life of austerity and live in a two-room home. However, he built a 'sheesh mahal' (glass palace) worth Rs 179 crore for himself, the BJP MP said.
"As many as 21 flats, including those of former judges, the residences of the Delhi home secretary and DDA vice-chairman were demolished to build the official residence of the chief minister," the BJP member claimed.
BJP Rajya Sabha member Kiran Choudhry on Monday accused AAP of turning Delhi into a "dirty slum", saying it was making excuses and blaming others for the bad state of affairs in the national capital.
Initiating the discussion on the motion of thanks on the President's address in the Rajya Sabha, Choudhry said AAP has lost the faith of the people of Delhi.
Without naming former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, she tore into APP leaders for using "condemnable terms" like "water terrorism, genocide, poison in Yamuna being supplied to Delhi and equating it with the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki" during the campaign for Delhi assembly elections. They seem to have "lost their senses" and are making these statements when they have realised that after ten years, the people of Delhi are fed up with them for their non-performance.
Alleging that the AAP government did not take up any developmental work in Delhi, Choudhry said they have not fulfilled the promises that they made to the people of Delhi, and it is shameful.
oday, the condition of Delhi has gone from worse to the worst. The state of Delhi, the national Capital, is like that of a dirty slum," she claimed.
Further, she said for the namesake, Delhi is the capital of the country, and the world only sees Luytens' Delhi but a visit to the interior streets, outskirts and small colonies of Delhi presents the reality of Delhi, which is full of "dirty drainages, overflowing garbage dumps, overflowing sewers, and polluted and stinking drinking water". "They should also go there and see what is the condition of Delhi. They will hang their heads in shame," she asserted.
Terming the condition of the present Yamuna river a "cesspool of absolute dirt, toxic element" that the people of Delhi are made to drink, she asked AAP where has the Rs 6,000 crore that was supposed to be used in the cleaning of the Yamuna been used.
Delhi, under the AAP government, has the highest loss of processed water to the tune of 40-50 per cent. Nothing can be more shameful than this, she added.