The sitting of Delhi Assembly on Monday has been adjourned till 11 am 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 vote to prove majority will be taken up tomorrow.
Ahead of the vote the chief minister hit out at the Centre blaming it for the inflation and alleged that the price of the daily-use items rose because the BJP government had waived off loans of its “billionaire friends”.
“The Centre waived off the loans of their billionaire friends. The central government has stated in the Parliament that in the past five years, they have waived off loans worth Rs 10 lakh crore of the 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 the 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 fall in the entire world, but it is 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”.