Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena told him during a meeting that the Bharatiya Janata Party won 104 seats in the civic polls because of him, NDTV reported.
Addressing the Delhi Assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party chief also said that Saxena told him that the BJP would not have won even 20 Municipal Corporation of Delhi seats without the lieutenant governor’s help. Moreover, Saxena was working to help the BJP win all the seven seats in Delhi in the 2024 general elections, Kejriwal claimed.
The chief minister then criticised Saxena for allegedly stalling a proposal to send government school teachers for training to Finland. The lieutenant governor, however, has maintained he has not rejected the government’s proposal.
“Not even my teachers checked my homework as the LG scrutinises my files,” Kejriwal said in the Assembly. “The LG is not my headmaster. People have elected me as chief minister.”
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