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AAP, BJP spar over rise in allocation to purchase telephones

AAP Leader Saurabh Bhardwaj addresses a press convention at AAP HQ in New Delhi on Monday. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday criticised the Delhi authorities’s resolution for permitting the Chief Minister and Ministers to spend ₹1.5 lakh and ₹1.25 lakh respectively, on cell phones.

Taking a dig on the BJP, AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj mentioned, “A committee was shaped to provide ₹2,500 to ladies on March 8. But not a single girl acquired ₹2,500 to date. They ought to have shaped a committee for his or her telephones too, they might have mentioned for years how a lot a cellphone ought to price.”

“This is a authorities that celebrates festivals in a famine. After Maya Mahal and Rang Mahal [for Chief Minister Rekha Gupta], they now wish to blow up lakhs of taxpayers’ cash on the newest telephones, regardless of having official phone entry,” AAP MLA Anil Jha mentioned.

Defending the federal government’s resolution, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor mentioned that cell phones utilized by public representatives work as their file rooms, and celebration leaders use high-quality telephones for safety objective.

“When you [AAP] have an objection to CM’s eligibility of getting a cellphone price ₹1.5 lakh, then, please say one thing in regards to the vehicles price ₹1.43 crore bought between 2015 and 2022 by then CM Arvind Kejriwal,” Mr. Kapoor mentioned in a submit on X.

Published – July 15, 2025 01:30 am IST

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