New Delhi: Manish Sisodia, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister on Friday (June 11) hit out on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) calling it “Bharatiya Jhagda Party” and accused it of continually “abusing” state governments and chief ministers together with Arvind Kejriwal.
Addressing a digital press convention, Sisodia made veiled references to remarks made by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
“A very senior minister of the Central government held a press conference right now. I saw it too. He abused Arvind Kejriwal on ration, vaccines and many other things. These days, central government ministers have only one job – to abuse Kejriwal. They don’t talk of nation-building or any other important issue,” he stated.
Further, Sisodia stated the Union ministers and BJP leaders had been continuously attacking CM’s of different state governments too. “From morning to night, they keep abusing state governments. Sometimes it is Bengal, sometimes Jharkhand, or Maharashtra. Do they have no other work left? Union ministers and BJP leaders are all doing the same,” stated Sisodia.
Earlier, Prasad referred to as Delhi authorities’s doorstep ration supply scheme a “jumla”.
“You couldn’t provide doorstep delivery of oxygen, medicines, and now you want to give ration… Delhi government is under control of the ration mafia, as are their decisions. I’m saying this with full responsibility,” he stated.
On June 5, Centre had scrapped Delhi authorities’s flagship ration supply scheme saying that the Kejriwal authorities didn’t search the approval.
With this scheme, the supply of packed wheat flour and rice had been to be delivered to the beneficiaries at their doorstep. The scheme, which was introduced underneath the ‘Mukhya Mantri Ghar Ghar Ration Yojna’ (MMGGRY) of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) of the National Food Security Act, 2013 was notified by the federal government on February 20. The scheme was geared toward benefiting 72 lakh individuals.
