A day after she wrote to Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena over an order to demolish a number of locations of worship, Chief Minister Atishi on Wednesday alleged the BJP-led central authorities’s involvement within the matter. The BJP, nevertheless, lashed out on the CM and accused her of making an attempt to disturb the communal concord within the Capital.
Even because the L-G’s workplace on Tuesday had rejected the Chief Minister’s claims, dubbing it as “low-cost politics”, Atishi on Wednesday introduced a doc from the November 22 assembly of the Non secular Committee, which in line with her, acquired the L-G’s approval.
“The BJP-led central authorities is planning to demolish a number of temples and Buddhist spiritual websites throughout numerous components of Delhi. In Delhi, there’s a Non secular Committee that makes choices associated to the shifting or demolition of temples and different spiritual websites. This Non secular Committee was shaped as per the Supreme Courtroom’s order,” Atishi mentioned.
She but once more focused the L-G for issuing an order final 12 months resulting from which the Delhi authorities has no say within the matter. “Any advice by the Non secular Committee is distributed on to the L-G….The Principal Secretary (Residence), who’s appointed by the BJP-led central authorities, makes the selections, and these choices are then despatched to the L-G for approval,” she mentioned.
Accusing the BJP of “blatantly mendacity” for saying that temples usually are not going to be demolished Atishi claimed: “Cops have already been notified to offer the mandatory power for these demolitions.”.
Hitting again, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva accused Atishi of making an attempt to disturb communal concord and demanded that she ought to withdraw her statements.
“Non secular Committee is chaired by the Residence Minister of the Delhi Authorities and studies to each the Chief Minister and the L-G.”
Sachdeva mentioned the same situation forward of the 2020 elections when AAP had raised points surrounding the Citizenship Modification Act. “The statements had subsequently led to riots underneath the management of an AAP councillor after the elections,” he mentioned.
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