Keypoints:
- Sisodia said that Centre brought in NCT bill in Rajya Sabha to counter the work of AAP and Arvind Kejriwal’s popularity.
- BJP has no alternative to Kejriwal model, Delhi Deputy CM, said Sisodia.
- Despite walkout by opposition parties, NCT bill was passed in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
On Thursday, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi was addressing a press conference over the passing of The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia said that people are viewing Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal as an alternative to PM Modi.”The discussion is who apart from Modi Ji can give good governance,” Manish Sisodia said.
On Wednesday, Sisodia said that the bill passed in Rajya Sabha was bought to counter Arvind Kejriwal’s work and his popularity.
“The BJP has no alternative to this model [of Delhi]. Nowhere in the country are people talking about the Modi model. Wherever I go, people demand the Kejriwal model” Manish Sisodia said.
“Everywhere Delhi’s model of governance is being discussed. The BJP government at the Centre is feeling insecure because Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is emerging as an alternative to Narendra Modi. Therefore, this bill has been pushed to undermine the elected government,” he was quoted as saying.
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia told reporters that the kind of work that people thought was impossible has been done successfully in Delhi. Adding to this, he also mentioned the overhaul of government schools in the national capital and the setting up of Mohalla Clinics to say that these government schemes are making the BJP restless.
“The ‘Kejriwal model of governance’ is finding increasing resonance among people across the country while the ‘Modi model’ has failed,”Sisodia argued.
“In the past six years, a lot of work has been achieved in Delhi and it is not we who are claiming this.. the entire country is saying this. It is being studied how, under unfavourable circumstances, performance was delivered. Work that was otherwise thought to be impossible to achieve and which no government had done them successfully, all that work has been achieved successfully,” Sisodia said.
