The BJP retaliated against the AAP, saying that Atishi is making a ‘futile attempt to play the victim card’
Officials of the Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) on Thursday inventoried items at 6, Flag Staff Road – a bungalow that is the latest flashpoint of the imbroglio between the Aam Aadmi Party government on one side and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and lieutenant governor on the other – even as Delhi chief minister Atishi alleged that the BJP is trying to “occupy the CM’s residence by force” because it has been unable to win Delhi assembly elections for the past 27 years.
The BJP retaliated against the AAP, saying that Atishi is making a “futile attempt to play the victim card”.
Early on Thursday, four senior PWD officials along with other support staff, visited the house and started making an inventory, after which they submitted a report to their seniors, officials familiar with Thursday’s developments said.
A separate PWD official said that four PWD officials including two electrical engineers, one executive engineer, and one junior engineer with staff visited the CM residence in the afternoon for inventorisation during which they made the list of all the goods in the house such as air conditioners, furniture, electronic items, and others by visiting all areas of the CM bungalow complex.
The official did not share the details of the inventory that was found at the former CM’s residence. It was not known if they also video-recorded the inventorisation process or not.
The inventory report was submitted to deputy secretary housing allotment section of the PWD.
The officials cited above, however, did not share the list of the items at the Flag Staff Road bungalow.
“The Delhi CM office has requested that the bungalow where Arvind Kejriwal lived from 2015 to 2024 (weeks after resignation) be allotted to incumbent CM Atishi… The inventorisation of the bungalow was done by local PWD officials on Thursday and the report was submitted to the PWD officials concerned. A decision on the allotment of the bungalow is likely to be taken on Friday,” said another senior PWD official, asking not to be identified.