Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP’s Delhi chief, unleashed fury against the BJP government for driving the capital to its first-ever open-market borrowing of Rs 1,000 crore, just one year after assuming power.
The architect of last year’s Rs 1 lakh crore budget, CM Rekha Gupta, basked in glory then. Bharadwaj now brands it a ‘bubble that burst,’ questioning fund allocation and borrowing rationale amid plastered promotions sans financial blueprints.
Government whispers to RBI for loan approval have surfaced, contrasting sharply with AAP’s surplus-driven governance that shunned debts.
Bharadwaj lambasted the lack of genuine progress. AAP’s 540 Mohalla Clinics reduced to 100; re-vamped old facilities called ‘Arogya Mandir’; prior buses as ‘Devi Bus’; Ambedkar-named schools switched to ‘CM Shri,’ inventing 73 additions without infrastructure groundwork.
‘Not a single tender or brick,’ he emphasized, calling out the rebranding scam.
He insisted on comprehensive budget audits and debt explanations. With Delhi’s economy under spotlight, Bharadwaj’s offensive signals escalating pre-election tensions.