Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today took a jibe at the Narendra Modi government, saying Delhi Police could not be faulted for their role in dealing with the recent incidents of violence in universities in the national capital as they were merely following the orders that came from above.
“Whatever has happened, the Delhi Police is not at fault. If you tell the policemen don't go in, they cannot go in. If they do, they will be suspended. They will lose their jobs. If they are ordered to go in and stop the violence, I am sure they will do it risking their own lives,” said Kejriwal in an apparent reference to the criticism of the Delhi Police for allegedly being mute spectators to the violent attacks on students of Jawaharlal Nehru University and staying outside the gates of the varsity while there was mayhem inside.
“When we took over, we improved the condition of schools and hospitals with the same set of teachers and doctors. It is all about having the political will to do the right thing,” he said.
Kejriwal was drawing a comparison between the departments that come under the Delhi government and those that come under the BJP-ruled municipal corporations and the Modi regime at the Centre.
The AAP national convenor dismissed the idea that the anti-CAA protests will have any impact on the Assembly elections, saying the state polls will be all about the work done by his government and not on any other issue. “For the first time, the people will vote on the basis of the work done by our government. All other issues are meaningless,” he said.
Attempting to make the election all about comparing the work done by the AAP government in Delhi and the departments that are in the control of the BJP, Kejriwal drew a comparison between what he called was the AAP model of governance and the BJP model of governance and said that the people of the national capital experienced the two models in their everyday lives.
The AAP model of governance, he said, comprised areas such as schools, hospitals, electricity, water and drainage, and the BJP's model of governance included the services that came under the municipal corporation, such as primary schools and sanitation and Delhi Police, which comes under the union home ministry.
