Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta outside Assembly on Friday
| Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Friday that her government would not rest until it fulfils all the promises mentioned in the BJP’s election manifesto. She also hit out at the previous AAP government, alleging that it “failed to deliver on promises” despite being in power for over a decade.

“Despite the empty coffers left by AAP, we will ensure that Delhi gets the governance it deserves,” Ms. Gupta said while replying to the Motion of Thanks to Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena’s address to the House.

The CM took a dig at AAP, calling it a “dharna party”. “They are a dharna party — when in power, they sat on protests, now they are in the Opposition and they are still doing the same,” she said.

“Atishi (Leader of the Opposition) and other AAP MLAs were holding up banners asking when will we give ₹2,500 each to women, even before we took the oath. How dare they question us, when they themselves failed to fulfil the same promise?” she said.

Hitting back, AAP said the BJP must focus on fulfilling its promise of giving women beneficiaries in the city their first monthly aid on March 8, International Women’s Day.

‘Hit ground running’

Ms. Gupta said her Cabinet got to work immediately after taking oath by extending the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat health scheme to Delhi residents and initiating the cleaning of the Yamuna river.

Painting a picture of what she called a “disastrous decade of governance by AAP”, the CM said when the newly elected MLAs visited their constituencies, “people demanded nothing else but basic amenities”.

“People are requesting to clean sewers, repair drains, and improve other basic facilities that, for over 10 years, the previous government failed to address,” she said.