New Delhi, January 22
A day after giving Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal a face saver to end his 48-hour siege of central Delhi, the Congress today decided to up the ante against the fledgling political outfit by formally demanding the ouster of controversial Law Minister Somnath Bharti.
Top sources in the Congress informed The Tribune that the party had firmed up a strategy to mount moral pressure on AAP after giving it a chance to escape from the Rail Bhawan protest over the suspension of five policemen who had refused to raid some African women whom Bharti alleged ran a sex-and-drug racket.
Members of the Congress Legislature Party in Delhi will meet Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung tomorrow to seek Bharti’s dismissal from the Cabinet.
“The MLAs led by Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely will submit a memorandum to the Lt Governor to urge him to exercise his powers and dismiss the minister concerned against whom there is a court case and a serious charge of trespass. An African woman, heckled at the behest of the minister, has even identified him as the leader of the instigating group that set out to deliver vigilante justice in Khirki Extension the other day, thus preventing the police from acting in accordance with the law,” a senior Congress leader told The Tribune today.
The strategy of building pressure formally for Bharti’s ouster is part of the Congress game plan to expose Arvind Kejriwal whose government it supports from the outside. Officially, the party continued to maintain that it would not withdraw its support to AAP and would back its government till the time Kejriwal fulfilled his promises to the voters of Delhi.
The Congress today sought to corner AAP saying there was no place for cinematic grandeur, derogatory remarks and insulting behaviour in Indian democracy and the governments were run with balanced approach and not theatrics.
Source Link: http://www.tribuneindia.com
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