Delhi Assembly Session Live: Kejriwal Claims Ambedkar Photo Removed, AAP Slams BJP as ‘Anti-Dalit’

Delhi Assembly Session Live: Atishi, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, on Monday, alleged that photographs of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar and revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh were removed from the office of the Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta. The action, she alleged, was indicative of the hate-tinged mindset manifest by the Bharatiya Janata Party against the Dalits.

The former Delhi chief minister, Atishi, walked into the chamber of Gupta on Monday and claimed that the pictures affixed in the office of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal were taken away by the BJP government.

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"The anti-Dalit mentality of the Bharatiya Janata Party is well known. Today, a proof of its anti-Dalit mentality has been presented. Arvind Kejriwal had put up photos of Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh in every office of the Delhi government...the BJP has removed both these photos from the Chief Minister's office. This shows that the BJP is an anti-Dalit, anti-Sikh party," she said.

"Does the BJP think PM Narendra Modi is greater than Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh?" she added.

She also held a protest outside the assembly.

Earlier in the day, Atishi said that the Delhi government has not honored the commitment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"We had asked for time from the Chief Minister for the last 2 days, we did not get time for 2 days and today we went to meet chief minister Rekha Gupta ji during the session," she added.

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She further stated that this was a broken promise in the first cabinet meeting by Modi introducing the Mahila Samman Yojana.

Atishi's criticism was leveled against the delay which the scheme intended to compensate for the financial assistance that would be available to the women of Delhi.

Earlier today, Rekha Gupta took the oath as a member of the legislative assembly.

BJP defeated AAP in this month's Delhi assembly election. The party won 48 of the city's 70 seats.

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