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ASSEMBLY ADJOURNED, VOTE TO PROVE MAJORITY

The sitting of the Delhi Assembly on Monday has been adjourned till 11 a.m. on Tuesday amid protests by MLAs of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought a majority test to prove that he has the support of all his party’s MLAs . The discussion on the vote to prove […]

The sitting of the Delhi Assembly on Monday has been adjourned till 11 a.m. on Tuesday amid protests by MLAs of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought a majority test to prove that he has the support of all his party’s MLAs .

The discussion on the vote to prove the majority will be taken up tomorrow. Prior to the election, the chief minister lashed out at the central government, blaming it for inflation and claiming that the price of everyday items rose because the BJP government waived the loans of its “billionaire friends.”

Kejriwal said that inflation would be put to an end if the loans waived off by the Centre were recovered.

“The Centre waived off the loans of their billionaire friends. The central government has stated in Parliament that in the past five years, they have waived off loans worth Rs 10 lakh crore from billionaires. They do not waive off the loans of students and farmers. If they recover the money that they have waived off from the billionaires, inflation will finish,” Kejriwal said in the Assembly.

The Delhi chief minister alleged that the money which the BJP-led Centre collects from taxes that it imposed on eatables is being used in “Operation Lotus”.

“They are collecting taxes from you but not spending the amount on education, healthcare, electricity, or roads. They are putting it in the pockets of their billionaire friends. The prices of petrol and diesel have fallen throughout the entire world, but they are increasing in India. This money is used in Operation Lotus,” he alleged, adding that the BJP has “bought 277 MLAs so far from the other parties at an expense of Rs 6,300 crore”.

“They form governments by buying the MLAs. Twelve of our MLAs have told us that they were offered Rs 20 crores to join the BJP. Their target was to break 40 MLAs, but our MLAs are honest. Their Operation Lotus failed. They succeeded in toppling the governments in various states. They will do the same in Jharkhand in a few days. They have bought 277 MLAs so far from the other parties at an expense of Rs 6,300 crores,” Kejriwal further alleged.

Slamming the BJP over its protest against the rolled back excise policy in the national capital, he said that nothing was found in the probe and therefore the BJP is tagetting the government schools.

“They created a fuss about the excise policy recently, but did not find anything in the probe. Now they are saying that more toilets and schools were built. There is a need for this confidence motion because we have to show that every MLA of the AAP is honest. We will prove that not a single MLA was sold,” he said.

Earlier on Monday, the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party hit out against a “major scam” by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party, accusing it of not honouring its manifesto promise of building 500 new government schools.

The BJP alleged that the Delhi government had indulged in corruption in the construction of new classrooms by giving tenders to “selected contractors.”

BJP’s Gaurav Bhatia alleged that Kejriwal did not take any note of the report submitted over two years ago by the Central Vigilance Commission, which highlighted irregularities in the construction of classrooms in government schools in Delhi.

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