Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Sunday said that it was shocking that four Chief Ministers were supporting their counterpart Arvind Kejriwal who has “gone on strike while evading the problems facing Delhiites”.
“The support seems less based on logic and more on political bias towards the BJP,” Mr. Tiwari said at a press conference on Sunday. “Now that the four CMs have become guest artists in the political drama going on in Delhi, we call upon them to understand the problems being faced by city residents and convince their friend Mr. Kejriwal to discontinue this strike and work to solve the water, electricity and pollution-related problems,” Mr. Tiwari said.
The Delhi BJP has accused Mr. Kejriwal of resorting to a “political stunt” in a bid to form an “anti-BJP, anti-Narendra Modi” front in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta, who is sitting on an indefinite hunger strike at the Chief Minister’s Office in the Delhi Secretariat, wrote an “open letter” to Mr. Kejriwal asking him to look beyond “political interests” and resume work.
“The conference by the CMs of four States in your favour ends all doubts of your dharna being nothing more than a political stunt to rally together an anti-BJP, anti-Modi front before the elections next year,” Mr. Gupta wrote in the letter.