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Delhi burning, Sheila sleeping: NCP

Staff Reporter

`Chief Minister prefers to spend most her time abroad and outside Delhi'

NEW DELHI: Accusing the Delhi Government of failing to prevent demolitions in the Capital, particularly in the rural areas, Nationalist Congress Party MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Thursday charged Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit with "sleeping" while Delhi was burning and reacting only when her own residence and that of her son were declared unauthorised and faced demolition by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

"The most unfortunate part of the whole issue is that when residents of the Capital were faced with bulldozers, the Chief Minister was on a visit to Switzerland. Now she is planning to visit Australia for the Commonwealth Games when the Capital is faced with demolitions, water and power crisis. This is nothing but a reflection of total breakdown of the Government machinery and the will to act in the interest of people," Mr. Bidhuri said in the Delhi Assembly while speaking on an adjournment motion moved by the BJP and the NCP. Mr. Bidhuri said when the initial High Court order on demolitions came the Chief Minister welcomed it and said all those structures that were illegal should be demolished even if they belonged to politicians or MLAs. However, when her own house and that of her son came under fire, Ms. Dikshit immediately changed tune and started talking about issuing of an Ordinance. Such was the haste that she did not even consult her own Cabinet or the Lieutenant-Governor, he added.

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