The Assembly session convened on Wednesday starting with a tussle between Delhi Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla and Lt Governor VK Saxena over his letter to CM Arvind Kerjiwal. This was the first Assembly session after the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNTCD) Bill was passed.
A statement by a Congress leader that the party has asked its leaders to prepare for a contest in all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi next year has raised a row with the Aam Aadmi Party, a member of the newly formed opposition bloc INDIA.
Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, along with the rest of the BJP’s seven legislators, alleged that the ruling AAP had stifled opposition voices by preventing discussions on notices raised by BJP MLAs.
The AAP's attack on the L-G came a day after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took exception to Saxena's comment that Delhiites had “got used to freebies”, in an ostensible reference to the Delhi government’s flagship power, water and free bus rides for women, during his address at an event Wednesday.