New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the Centre has placed on maintain the presentation of the Delhi authorities’s finances for 2023-24 within the Assembly on Tuesday, in indicators of a contemporary spherical of confrontation between the AAP dispensation and the Union authorities. Sources within the Delhi authorities stated the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has stopped the Kejriwal authorities’s finances and it’ll not be tabled within the Assembly on Tuesday.
As the chief minister lashed out on the Centre, sources within the MHA stated the ministry has sought clarification from the AAP authorities as its finances proposal had excessive allocation for commercial and comparatively low funding for infrastructure and different improvement initiatives.
“The AAP government has so far not responded to our queries,” one of many MHA sources stated. AAP authorities sources denied the fees as lies. The whole finances dimension was Rs 78,800 crore, out of which 22,000 crore was earmarked for expenditure on infrastructure and simply Rs 550 crore on ads, they claimed.
The allocation for commercial was the identical as in final 12 months’s finances, they stated. Speaking at a News 18 programme on Monday, Chief Minister Kejriwal charged that the Centre was resorting to “gundagardi” and that it was for the primary time within the historical past of the nation {that a} finances of a authorities was placed on maintain. A video clip of his speech was tweeted by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
According to sources within the lieutenant governor’s workplace, the LG accredited the Annual Financial Statement for 2023-2024, with sure observations on March 9, and despatched the file to the chief minister. The Government of Delhi, thereafter, sought the approval of the President as mandated by regulation by sending a letter to the Home Ministry.
The Home Ministry conveyed its observations to the Delhi authorities on March 17. The LG workplace is awaiting the file to be despatched to it from the chief minister. There was no readability but on when the finances will probably be introduced within the Assembly. The ongoing finances session of the Assembly is scheduled to conclude on March 23.
Delhi Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday tabled an consequence finances of the Kejriwal authorities and the financial survey, 2022-23.Earlier within the day, the Assembly was adjourned until 11 am on Tuesday.
