My crime was to fight for the life of 2 crore people: Delhi CM

NH Bureau Friday, 25 June 2021 04:39:25 PM

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New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of committing a heinous crime and criminal negligence during the second wave of coronavirus. Delhi CM was quick to respond, claiming that his attempt to save the lives of 2 crore people was his crime.

“My crime – I fought for the lives of 2 crore people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said on the ‘exaggerated oxygen need’ which was mentioned in the Interim Report of Oxygen audit in NCT of Delhi.

Earlier on Friday, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra accused Delhi of exaggerated Oxygen demand during the second wave of coronavirus. Mr Patra cited the report to note that the Delhi government had demanded 1,140 MT of the life-saving gas during the peak of the second wave even though it could utilise 209 MT.

मेरा गुनाह-मैं अपने 2 करोड़ लोगों की साँसों के लिए लड़ा

जब आप चुनावी रैली कर रहे थे, मैं रात भर जग कर Oxygen का इंतज़ाम कर रहा था। लोगों को ऑक्सिजन दिलाने के लिए मैं लड़ा, गिड़गिड़ाया

लोगों ने ऑक्सिजन की कमी से अपनों को खोया है। उन्हें झूठा मत कहिए, उन्हें बहुत बुरा लग रहा है
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) June 25, 2021

Delhi needed around 351 MT of oxygen if we go by Delhi government’s formulae and it was just 289 MT by the Central government’s estimate, in total just 209 MT was expended while Kejriwal projected a requirement of 1,140 MT.

“Imagine the amount of criminality. This is a heinous crime by Arvind Kejriwal. This is criminal negligence as the panel says he sought four times more oxygen than required. The report has exposed the politics he did to shift blame from his incompetence and failure to deal with COVID-19,” Patra claimed.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia straight away rejected existence of such report.

“There is no such report. We have spoken to the members of the Oxygen Audit Committee formed by the Supreme Court. They said they have not signed or approved any such report. The BJP is presenting a false report that it prepared at its party headquarters. I challenge them to present such a report which has signatures of the members of the oxygen audit committee,” Sisodia said.

“By doing this, the BJP is not abusing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, but those who lost their family members due to oxygen shortage when coronavirus cases were at its peak,” he said and accused the Union government of mismanagement which led to the oxygen crisis.