New Delhi, Aug 18,2023: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will fight next year’s Lok Sabha polls on the plank of getting full statehood for Delhi, party supremo and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in on Friday.
“The party will fight the coming Lok Sabha election on the full statehood issue”, Kejriway said in the Delhi Assembly during a discussion on the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2023.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP, which spearheads the Centre’s ruling dispensation over the new Act, Kejriwal alleged that the Centre took away the rights of Delhi people by enacting the law.
“I assure the people of Delhi that I will get back your rights, we will not let the work of Delhi stop under any circumstances,” said Kejriwal.
Taking a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Kejriwal said, “I heard the whole speech of Amit Shah who spoke on GNCTD (Amendment) Bill for almost two hours, but he did not say anything about the benefit of the Bill for Delhiites.”
Kejriwal said earlier the Centre had brought an Ordinance, and then the Bill in parliament, which has now become the GNCTD Act after it was passed by both Houses. “The BJP-led government brought this Act with an intention to create obstacles in the development works of Delhi government,” he alleged.
