The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has launched a scathing attack on the BJP, Lieutenant Governor (LG) and all seven MPs who have been missing since the tragic incident in Mayur Vihar Phase III. AAP Chief Spokesperson (National) Priyanka Kakkar said that due to the negligence of the DDA, a mother and son duo died after falling into an open drain and the LG and all the BJP MPs have gone missing.
Chief AAP Spokesperson (National) Priyanka Kakkar held a press conference at the party headquarters on Friday and questioned the silence of BJP MPs on the tragic incident in Delhi’s Kondli assembly. She said, “The BJP MPs are nowhere to be seen since the incident. Is it not a big issue for them that a two and a half year old child and his 23 year old mother lost their lives after falling into a 15 feet deep DDA drain. The DDA officials showed negligence and did not even cover the drain. To save her little child, the mother jumped into that DDA drain. The bodies of both of them were found at a distance of about half a kilometre. The bodies of both were stuck to each other.”
“Despite all this, instead of reaching the spot and helping, the BJP police was fighting over whose jurisdiction that area falls under. Where is the LG? Is his job only to stop the work of the Delhi government? After the accident, the lowly spokesperson of the BJP reaches that drain and says that it is a PWD drain. Therefore, this government of less educated people should sometimes look at books and documents also,” she stated.
Priyanka Kakkar said that earlier when three students died in the Rajinder Nagar incident, LG started doing politics. It was the BJP that ruled the MCD for 15 years. The LG went to meet those students, but they are UPSC students and they know that the LG came only to do politics. They know that those basements were running with the help of Delhi Police. They know that the Arvind Kejriwal government of Delhi is standing with them. The BJP promoted illegal activities in these basements during its 15 years of MCD misrule. So, when the LG went to meet them, those children raised slogans of ‘LG Go Back!’.
She said that this drain comes under the Lieutenant Governor’s DDA, so now LG sir has disappeared. Is he afraid of getting beaten up? Why doesn’t he announce any financial assistance for the victim’s family? If there is someone dependent on that family, why doesn’t he announce a job for him? Why does LG want to stick to his post all the time? Why doesn’t he resign after this incident? Is his only job left to stop the work of the Delhi government? Where are the seven MPs of BJP, who are no longer raising their voice for the people of Delhi?
The AAP Chief Spokesperson stated, “The BJP will now have to give up this dirty and petty politics. No matter how much the BJP tries to stop the work of the Arvind Kejriwal government, we will continue to work. They may take away our powers, but we will not let any work of Delhiites stop. Why does the central government not take any action against LG on the death of two innocent people due to the negligence of the agency under LG? On what moral basis does the LG want to remain in this post?”
Priyanka Kakkar further said that our ministers are being implicated in false cases and are kept in jail despite getting bail, but despite this they are getting work done in their areas from MLA fund. They are working for the people of Delhi even from inside the jail. So what is the problem with the LG? Why does he not answer this? Was the life of these people of no value to him?
She demanded, “An inquiry should be conducted against the LG. He should resign from his post till this inquiry is completed. The public should also not give the BJP a chance to hide its failures again and again.”