BJP files complaint against Deputy CM

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 23

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s appeal on Sunday to people of Delhi to vote against “filth, garbage piles and corruption” if they are fed up obviously did not go down well with the Opposition BJP which filed a complaint against him seeking legal action.

Lt Governor Anil Baijal was one of the early voters at Masjid Mod in Greater Kailash while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was accompanied by his parents, wife and daughter, Harshita a first-time voter, and his deputy Manish Sisodia also exercised their franchise in Civil Lines area and Pandav Nagar respectively.

Speaking to reporters the Aam Aadmi Party national convener said people of Delhi should come out in large numbers and vote for “dengue and chikungunya-free Delhi”.

After exercising his franchise in his Patparganj constituency, Sisodia said that Delhi was voting against poor sanitation and mismanagement in the civic bodies. “If people are fed up with filth, dumps of garbage, corruption, people should vote against them,” Sisodia saiod.

Hours later the Delhi BJP objected to Sisodia’s appeal made to the people while voting was on with party’s president Manoj Tiwari saying “repeated violation of the Model Code of Conduct by AAP leaders is a proof of Kejriwal-led party’s “anarchic” nature.

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken voted in Rajouri Garden area and former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress veteran Sheila Dikshit who exercised her franchise in Nizamuddin, refused to accept the MCD polls as a referendum on the AAP government's two years rule, saying it is unfair and asserted it was actually a referendum on the BJP's ten-year rule in the MCD.

Dikshit also dismissed that her colleague Arvinder Singh Lovely switching over to BJP will have much effect on the party. She asked the voters to think about the development work done by the previous Congress governments.