Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, urging him to “spend less money on advertisements” and pay the relevant dues to municipal corporations.
Addressing an inaugural ceremony of Bharat Darshan Park in Delhi, Shah said there are two types of work cultures in the country—one which silently carries out various development works like providing free vaccines to people, bringing administrative reforms, introducing new education policy, urban development programmes, bringing 60 crore poor people under the ambit of welfare programmes like free housing, electricity, gas etc. And the other is “karo ya na karo, advertisements do, TV interview do” (Just give advertisements even if you don’t do anything and give interviews to TV news channels).
“I want to say to Delhi CM to spend less money on advertisements and give dues of Rs 13,000 crore to the municipal corporations… In our government’s work culture, we do what we say. The time has come for the people of Delhi to decide as to support which work culture,” Amit Shah added.
Earlier in May, while addressing a virtual press conference, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra cited an RTI reply concerning CM Arvind Kejriwal’s expenditure towards advertisements and mentioned that about Rs 805 crore were spent on advertisements ever since he came to power.
