Manoj Tiwari: AAP bypassing L-G's role in Assembly

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday accused the Arvind Kejriwal -led government of bypassing the role of the lieutenant-governor in convening Delhi Assembly sessions. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said that he had written a letter to L-G Anil Baijal seeking his intervention in the matter.

The party claimed that constitutional provisions were being “violated” by not proroguing the Delhi Assembly for the past years. “As per Section 6 of the Government of NCT of Delhi Act, the L-G summons the Assembly to meet from time to time and prorogues the Assembly. But in the past two years, the ruling AAP has not sought such permission from the L-G,” Mr Tiwari said.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is not just “violating” the constitutional provisions, but is also using the House for its “political propaganda”, Mr Tiwari said. “In a special session of the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday, some fake people through a fake machine performed a fake demonstration,” Mr Tiwari said, referring to the “live demonstration” of EVM hacking by AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj. Mr Tiwari’s letter to the

L-G has also raised the question of how “the machine” entered the House and who permitted it. “Arvind Kejriwal who is facing corruption charges from his own party colleague Kapil Mishra is taking cover by raising the EVM hacking issue by misusing the House,” he said.

Former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, who recently quit the Congress to join the saffron party, too accused the AAP of “violating” constitutional propriety to serve its political end. “They are misusing the provision of holding special sessions of the Assembly for political purposes. In the past, the BJP governments in Delhi never held special sessions, and the Sheila Dikshit government, despite ruling for 15 years held these sessions only thrice to discuss emergent issues,” he said.