“Surgical Strike”: Mamata Banerjee To Arvind Kejriwal Over Centre’s Invoice

New Delhi:

Terming a Invoice introduced through the centre to provide overarching powers to Lieutenant Governor a “surgical strike” on India’s federal construction, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal extending her reinforce in opposing it.

In her letter to Mr Kejriwal on Wednesday, Ms Banerjee, who could also be the Trinamool Congress leader, mentioned she’s going to write to all non-BJP leader ministers and political events opposing the party to hunt their reinforce for him over the problem.

The Govt of Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi (Modification) Invoice, 2021, used to be presented in Lok Sabha through Union Minister of State for House G Kishan Reddy on Monday.

In keeping with the Invoice, the “executive” within the town would imply the “Lieutenant Governor” within the context of any legislation made through the legislative meeting. The Invoice additionally makes it necessary for the Delhi executive to take the opinion of the L-G sooner than any government motion.

Ms Banerjee mentioned she used to be in complete harmony with Mr Kejriwal and his principled opposition to the centre’s “devious, anti-democratic and anti-Charter transfer to disempower the Delhi Govt and scale back the standing of Delhi’s Leader Minister to a subordinate to the Lieutenant Governor”.

“I strongly consider that the time has come for a united and efficient battle in opposition to the BJP’s assaults on democracy and the Charter, particularly with reference to its plans to dilute the powers of state governments and downgrade them to mere municipalities.

“The Govt of Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi (Modification) Invoice, 2021, which the BJP executive on the centre has presented within the Lok Sabha, is a surgical strike at the federal construction of the Indian Republic as enshrined within the Charter,” Ms Banerjee mentioned.

She added that however for her commitments within the ongoing marketing campaign for the Meeting elections in Bengal, she would have individually come to Delhi to information her reinforce and harmony with Mr Kejriwal.

“I want you luck to your combat. Your combat is my combat,” she mentioned.

Ms Banerjee alleged that the Invoice makes a “mockery” of the letter and spirit of democracy through disempowering the Delhi executive, which is elected through the folk of the nationwide capital.

She additionally identified that the Invoice used to be in violation of the decision through a five-judge Preferrred Court docket bench in 2018, which “upheld the pre-eminence of Delhi’s elected executive in all issues rather than police, public order and land”.

“It’s not that i am in any respect shocked through the BJP’s transfer to strip away the respectable powers of the Delhi Govt and make the manager minister subservient to the Lieutenant Governor, who’s an appointee of the centre.

“It’s obtrusive to all that each High Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah have now not been ready to abdomen the humiliating defeat the BJP suffered by the hands of the Aam Admi Party in each 2014 and 2019 meeting elections. They wish to govern Delhi through proxy, which is the actual goal of the proposed amendments to the GNCTD Act,” she mentioned.

The TMC leader additionally mentioned that what the saffron party used to be seeking to do in Delhi has been achieved in states which might be ruled through non-BJP events.

“In lots of states, together with in West Bengal, governors were functioning like BJP’s workplace bearers and now not as impartial Constitutional government,” Ms Banerjee alleged.