Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Guptaon Friday delivered a strong response to AAPleaders and netizens on social media who had previously trolled her for ‘mispronouncing’ important words like “AQI” during her speeches in the assembly. Gupta also accused former CM Arvind Kejriwal of deliberately lying about promises made while swearing on his children.
Reacting to the trolls, Gupta sais she felt pained that words mistakenly uttered by her were used by the AAP leaders to hurt her dignity, claiming that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party “cannot tolerate a woman running the government and working around the clock”.
Gupta further said that while a human error is possible, the deliberate attempts to ridicule her were deeply unfortunate.
“I am pained by the way AAP leaders mock me… They do not like the fact that a woman CM is running the government, or a woman chief minister is working 24×7… They are unable to tolerate it.” Gupta said.
Gupta made the aforementioned statements during the Motion of Thanks to the Lieutenant Governor’s address on the last day of the Delhi winter Assembly.
Gupta taunts AAP government
During her address, Gupta maintained that while her mistakes were accidental in nature, the previous AAP government had deliberately had betrayed the trust of the people of Delhi to stay in power.
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In her latest address Gupta also referenced her Bhagat Singh-‘Congress sarkar’ gaffe in the Delhi Assembly. “In my speech, I accidentally said ‘Congress’ instead of ‘British’.They started making reels on that. Anyone can make such verbal slips. While I committed a mistake, the AAP deliberately misled the people of Delhi on so many occasions,” she said.
Following Gupta’s tongue slip earlier during the assembly where she said that shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, fought against the Congress government instead of the British regime that had actually been in power.
Following her tongue slip, Aam Aadmi Party leaders had taken several digs at the Delhi CM, with MLA Sanjay Jha saying it was an “updated version of history.”
AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bhardwaj said the Delhi CM had “embarrassed India.” “Even schoolchildren know that Shaheed Bhagat Singh threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929 in protest against the British government,” Bharadwaj said.
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Gupta hits out at Kejriwal
Towards the end of her address in the assembly Gupta took a sharp jab at former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and alleged that many instances of financial blunders took place during his government’s tenure.
“Words can come out of anyone’s mouth. From me, from you, from anywhere. This kind of disgusting politics focused on personal ridicule never used to happen before. I said something by mistake. You have deliberately lied to the people of Delhi on so many occasions,” she said.
“Those people who swore on their children and said I will not take the post, I will not come to power, I do not want a car, I do not want a bungalow. I will not compromise with Congress. They made that wrong statement in their senses. Not by mistake like us,” she added, taking out a hit at Kejriwal.
Gupta alleged that during the term of the past AAP government, there had been massive cost overruns in hospital projects, irregular electricity connections, and irrational water bills. The Delhi CM said her government had addressed these through legal metering, an amnesty scheme for water dues, and time-bound GST refunds to traders. |
