NEW DELHI: Congress candidate for New Delhi Assembly seat, Sandeep Dikshit said on Sunday that just like there is a hat-trick in cricket, the three top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party – Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi and Manish Sisodia will lose in the next Assembly elections.
Speaking to ANI, Dikshit pointed out that there is a “mini bar” in Kejriwal’s former official residence.
“I was surprised when I came to know that there (at the then official residence of CM) there was a ‘mini bar’, then I realized why the liquor policy had been introduced – do we have ‘mini bar’ in any government residence ?They (AAP) don’t understand the repercussions that these things will have. Just like a hat-trick in cricket, all three of them will lose Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi and Manish Sisodia,” he said.
He stressed that his aim is to form the government in Delhi and not target any individual.
“We do politics of principles and policies. In 2013-14, everyone used to say that Delhi had become a global city. Earlier, Delhi used to change every moment, but in the last 10 years, the MCD was with the BJP , but “They couldn’t even clean the garbage off the roads. Delhi has become a city of garbage. Congress built Delhi and we will also build it in future,” Sandeep Dikshit said.
The ‘Sheesh Mahal’ controversy centers on allegations that Arvind Kejriwal spent millions of rupees renovating his official residence during the Covid-19 pandemic, a period when many public development projects were stalled.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national coordinator Kejriwal, who resigned as chief minister in September this year, vacated the Flagstaff Road bungalow in Civil Lines on October 4.
Earlier, another Congress candidate Alka Lamba came down heavily on Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using Rs 33 crore of taxpayers’ money for renovation of the Chief Minister’s official residence during the pandemic.