New Delhi: Issuing an ultimatum to AAP govt to call a special session of the legislative assembly within this week to table 14 pending Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports, BJP on Tuesday warned it would move Delhi High Court if the elected dispensation failed to do so.
Addressing a press conference, the leader of the opposition in the assembly, Vijender Gupta, said BJP would also take to the streets if AAP kept on avoiding tabling the reports in the House. Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said the special session should be convened on Dec 21 solely for tabling all the 14 audit reports and there should not be any other agenda.
No immediate reaction was available from AAP.
Gupta said not presenting the CAG reports in the assembly was a “grave crime” and charged that AAP govt “murdered” democratic traditions and the Constitution. “AAP govt was caught red-handed and stands exposed, and these 14 CAG reports will be the final nail in its coffin,” Gupta claimed. He added that LG VK Saxena also wrote to chief minister Atishi to call a special session of the assembly to table the reports, which were pending for over one-and-a-half years.
Gupta added that the party legislators raised the issue in the assembly multiple times over the past months, and even met with the President of India, the speaker of the assembly, and the chief secretary, but “Delhi govt still refused to table the reports”.
The reports include a performance audit of Delhi govt related to issues like liquor policy and air pollution, among others. Sachdeva alleged that former CM Arvind Kejriwal, who began his political career demanding the public release of CAG reports and probing the power discoms himself, sat over the documents for over two years.
“He not only began his political journey by raising the findings of the CAG report on Commonwealth Games, during his tenure as chief minister, he ordered an ACB investigation against the previous Sheila Dikshit govt on its basis on Feb 6, 2014,” Sachdeva alleged, adding that the AAP chief was aware that releasing these reports may lead to numerous financial scams coming out against his AAP govt.
