Modi wants 'revenge' on Delhi for BJP defeat, using Lt. Governor : Kejriwal
In a full blast during an interview with NDTV, Kejriwal has also accused Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung of acting like a "polling agent" of the BJP and playing the medium for Modi's revenge game.
Kejriwal said Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah must accept that the people of Delhi had voted the Aam Aadmi Party to govern Delhi and only it will run the Capital and not the BJP by proxy
"Since the BJP lost in Delhi, they want revenge. This isn't correct...The union government targetting the AAP government via the Lieutenant Governor," he said.
"Narendra Modi should realise that I'm not Rahul Gandhi.'We'll run Delhi and the BJP must accept that," Kejriwal said in his first interview after becoming Delhi Chief Minister.
Training his gun at Jung with whom he has been fighting a bitter turf war, Kejriwal said the Lieutenant Governor doesn't have time to meet Delhi ministers but will go crawling even at the call of Amit Shah's chowkidar.
"He has no time to meet our ministers but if Amit Shah'schowkidar(peon) calls the Lieutenant Governor , he will go crawling."
"The LG says he wants to make all appointments, wants to control us. We will not be controlled," he said in an apparent reference to appointment of senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gramlin that turned out to be the flashpoint of .a running feud between Delhi's two top men and Jung's recent disapproval of appointment of policemen on deputation from other states.
"This is not the first time policemen from other states have been appointed on deputation...
Big picture is that the Delhi government has the right to transfer and post officers, people have given us a mandate...Is the Lt Governor or the home minister our headmaster? Are we children?"
The Delhi Chief Minister said if the Lt Governor takes one decision in his favour," he will be removed immediately."
He also alleged that the institution of the Governor was being misused by a "dictatorial" central government.
"The way the state government is being dealt with in Delhi, it is an experiment by the BJP which will be extended to other states," Kejriwal said.
He said Delhi's governance is important for the Aam Aadmi Party. It will decide the strategy when there are elections in other states.
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