Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of sabotaging his government's efforts to serve the people of the national capital as the political slugfest over the dual office bill continued on Wednesday.
It comes after Opposition parties called for the removal of 21 MLAs of the Delhi government for holding additional positions as parliamentary secretaries, allegedly breaching rules on holding an office of profit.
The Election Commission will submit its report to the President on the matter in the coming days.
Earlier, the Aam Aadmi party also claimed that the complaints are politically motivated adding that no facilities such as office space, staff, vehicle or residential accommodation of any nature were procured by the MLAs in the capacity as parliamentary secretaries.
State health minister Satyendra Jain strongly defended the allegations against the Delhi government.
"This is only a voluntary position and I see no problem if one man helps me as a volunteer. To run the system we need to create certain positions", Jain said.
Former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit however slammed the government and termed their actions as constitutionally wrong.
These 21 parliamentary secretaries are constitutionally wrong. Rumour or truth was that they were being given a huge salary raise and they're able to look into files, but all this is not allowed." Dikshit said.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra also criticised the government for pointing fingers at PM Modi and the President and said that such decisions should have been taken as per the rules of the Constitution.
Former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav too joined the Opposition chorus and questioned the government’s actions.
"The real question is why does AAP need 21 parliamentary secretaries when the rule clearly allows you to have only one parliamentary secretary. Now they are dragging the central government and LG into this as an excuse to divert attention", Yadav said.
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