Labeling AAP as sinking ship, the Congress on Sunday blamed the corruption in the AAP government for the sudden resignation of Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot, saying the ruling party was caught in a web of corruption, commission and mal-administration.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Devender Yadav said AAP ministers and MLAs are either going to jail or deserting the party fearing the Enforcement Directorate.
Yadav said Gahlot was a close associate of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and his exit from the Delhi Cabinet and the AAP has exposed the party's internal dirty politics and secrets.
The Delhi Congress chief said two of the reasons cited by Gahlot in his resignation letter to Kejriwal were the AAP government's failure to clean the polluted Yamuna, and the corruption in the construction of the "Sheesh Mahal" or former CM Kejriwal's official residence.
"We had promised to transform the Yamuna into a clean river, but now the Yamuna is perhaps even more polluted than ever before," he said.
He said Ghelot has corroborated Delhi Congress' allegation of corruption and mis-governance by AAP leaders only."
He said the AAP had lost faith and trust of the people, and the party's disintegration was on the expected lines.
He said referring to the charge of corruption against the Delhi government levied by Gahlot, Kejriwal must now be fearing being exposed.
Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala reacted saying: "This resignation has nothing to do with the Congress as we have no alliance with AAP in Delhi. It is their internal matter. But, the people of Delhi are suffering due to this ongoing spat between the two individuals and their parties."
In his resignation letter, Gahlot cited challenges such as corruption and AAP's deviation from the path of fighting for public welfare to leave the party and also quit his post in the Delhi Cabinet. This blow came ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled to be held in February.
DPCC Chief Yadav addressed thousands of Congress workers, street vendors, sacked bus marshals and local residents at Ghonda Chowk in Ghonda Assembly in North East Delhi on the 10th day of Delhi Nyay Yatra Sunday afternoon.
He said that the non-implementation of the Street Vending Act to provide separate vending zones to street vendors by the Arvind Kejriwal government has affected lakhs of poor people who were being harassed daily by the police and the MCD officials.
He alleged that when the Congress-led UPA government was at the Centre, at the instigation of then Urban Development Minister Ajay Maken, a Street Vending law was passed in Parliament to make street vending a right to livelihood by giving them separate vending zones, but it is only trying to displace them by snatching away their livelihood.
The Delhi Nyay Yatra on Sunday covered the Ghonda and Seelampur Assembly constituencies before concluding at Nala Road, Jaffarabad. "We want Delhi to get free from those corrupt and inefficient parties like AAP and BJP," said Yadav.
He said that people in Delhi now want Congress back in power as they want a government which works for the people, provides them justice and prosperity and saves them from the agony suffered for the last 10 years.
The Atishi government, the Delhi Congress President said, demanded during the two-day Assembly session reinstatement of the bus marshals but even while there was a direction from the LG to reemploy the bus marshals by November 1, the CM and Kejriwal were playing politics with the lives of the unemployed marshals.
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