Why is Kejriwal silent on Jan Lokpal Bill, ask his rivals

The Delhi Congress, BJP and sacked AAP leader Rajesh Garg on Friday questioned the Arvind Kejriwal government on the delay in the introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

The Chief Minister’s political opponents claimed the issue on which Kejriwal had quit in 2014 has not even been taken up once in the first 49 days of his second innings in the government.

Delhi Congress Ajay Maken said as far as the Lokpal was concerned, the AAP removed their own internal Lokpal.

“While they have been speaking about a strong Lokpal in  public domain, when it came to their own internal Lokpal, they wanted a majboor (helpless) Lokpal, not a mazboot (strong) Lok Pal,” he said.

He said the AAP came to power on the promise of “clean governance, a strong Lok Pal, transparency and internal democracy”, but in the last 49 days, they have been seen demolishing all these four pretexts on the basis of which they came to power.

BJP urges LG
Leader of Delhi BJP Legislative Party  Vijendra Gupta urged Lieutenant  Governor Najeeb Jung to direct the Delhi government to immediately appoint the Lok Ayukt and Deputy Lok Ayukt.

“During his last tenure as Chief Minister, Kejriwal raised a lot of hue and cry over Lokpal but did nothing to appoint a Lok Ayukt when he came to power. For the last 18 months, the office of the Lok Ayukt is vacant,” said Gupta.

Garg, former Rohini legislator, said: “People want to know why Kejriwal is silent on the Lokpal issue.”

When he quit on February 14, 2014 over the Lokpal issue, Kejriwal made tall claims that he was willing to resign from the Chief Minister’s post a thousand times as introduction of the Jan Lokpal bill was his topmost priority, Garg said.