New Delhi:
A report by the Comptroller and Auditor Common of India (CAG) on the bills made in renovating the Delhi Chief Minister’s residence has given the BJP contemporary ammo to assault the ruling AAP and its chief Arvind Kejriwal because the nationwide capital preps for the Meeting polls.
The CAG probe, in keeping with information stories, discovered that the preliminary estimate for the renovation was Rs 7.91 crore. This went as much as 8.62 crore when work was awarded in 2020. However by the point the Public Works Division accomplished the job in 2022, the fee had jumped to Rs 33.66 crore.
Based on a report in The Indian Specific, former CAG Girish Chandra Murmu signed off on this report only a week earlier than he left workplace in November.
Addressing the media right this moment, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva stated the sum of Rs 33.66 crore was “only a determine” and the precise renovation value was a lot larger.
“If we need to estimate the precise value of this bungalow, it would require analyzing the accounts of varied departments and including the stock ready by PWD on October 11, 2024. We’ll then discover that Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Sheesh Mahal’ was illegally constructed and adorned at a value of roughly Rs 75 to 80 crore,” he stated.
The BJP has used the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ expression to seek advice from the renovated Chief Minister’s bungalow. The Opposition get together has accused AAP and Mr Kejriwal of large-scale corruption within the renovation train, a cost AAP has trashed.
The CAG report has flagged “uncertain” number of consultants, frequent revision of estimates and going past approvals to incorporate objects of upper specs. The report additionally raised questions on the PWD’s tender course of to establish contractors for the venture.
“The primary clear reality from the CAG report concerning the “Sheesh Mahal” is that beneath the Arvind Kejriwal authorities, the PWD didn’t act as a authorities company however as a private establishment for Chief Minister Kejriwal,” the Delhi BJP chief stated.
“It is very important be aware that the best way PWD officers broke each rule and legislation to construct this ‘Sheesh Mahal’ makes it clear that it is a case of corruption with a “give and take” scenario – the Chief Minister and the involved ministers will need to have additionally turned a blind eye to the numerous corrupt actions of the officers,” Mr Sachdeva added.
The BJP additionally stated PWD declared it an emergency venture and issued the work order on September 1, 2020. “This was throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, when folks have been struggling and jobs have been suspended,” the BJP stated, questioning the urgency.
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the CAG report and stated, “You’ll be shocked to know that when Delhi residents have been combating Covid, wandering in quest of oxygen and medicines, their (AAP) focus was on the constructing Sheesh Mahal.”
Hitting again on the Prime Minister, Mr Kejriwal stated the person who lives in a home price Rs 2,700 crore, travels on an Rs 8,400 crore aircraft and wears a Rs 10 lakh swimsuit should not speak about Sheesh Mahal. Mr Kejriwal has vacated the bungalow after he give up the Chief Minister’s submit, saying that he’ll return to the highest job solely after the “folks’s verdict” within the Meeting election due in February.