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Chandigarh, Oct 31 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) working president Ashwini Sharma on Friday sought clarification from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over reports that a government bungalow in Sector-2 in Chandigarh was allotted under his chief ministerial quota and has been renovated as the new “Sheesh Mahal” for former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal.
Sharma wrote in an ex-post that the matter is no longer limited to Punjab only but its echo is being heard in Delhi also.
After Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal exposed this matter, BJP leader Sharma has directly targeted Chief Minister Mann regarding this matter.
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BJP leader Sharma alleged that just as Kejriwal had built his ‘Sheesh Mahal’ in Delhi by spending crores of rupees of public money, a similar picture is now seen emerging in Punjab.
“This is an attempt at personal luxury at the cost of public money and Bhagwant Mann should clarify on this matter,” he said.
Calling it ‘Sheesh Mahal 2.0’, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Friday launched a scathing attack on Kejriwal for allegedly occupying the Punjab government’s “luxurious” bungalow.
“You have to answer Arvind Kejriwal. What is this Sheesh Mahal 2.0? Are you now planning to loot Punjab like Delhi?” Sachdeva asked in a video message.
He said Kejriwal needs to clarify whether the Sheesh Mahal model has now become the focus of the country’s pride Punjab for corruption and loot.
The Delhi BJP chief said, “I have come to know that Kejriwal has taken possession of a bungalow worth crores of rupees in Punjab, which is more expensive than the bungalow he built in Delhi.”
He also raised questions on the quota under which Kejriwal was given a two-acre seven-star bungalow in Sector-2, Chandigarh.
Sheesh Mahal is basically a political term used by the BJP to refer to Kejriwal’s former chief minister’s residence located at 6 Flag Staff Road in North Delhi, which it claimed was no less than a palace.
–IANS
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