New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of allegedly getting a “2-acre, 7-star” mansion built for him in Chandigarh, which operates as the capital of Punjab.
The party has claimed that the bungalow is being constructed for Kejriwal from Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s “quota”.
The BJP shared a satellite image of what it calls a “luxurious 7-star, two-acre government bungalow” being readied in Chandigarh’s Sector 2, on X.
“Big Breaking – The man who pretended to be the common man, Kejriwal, has had another grand Sheesh Mahal built,” BJP’s Delhi unit posted on its X handle.
Calling Kejriwal Punjab’s “Super CM”, the BJP said that the AAP chief has an “even more splendid Sheesh Mahal” after vacating his Delhi bungalow.
“In Chandigarh’s Sector 2, a luxurious 7-star government mansion of 2 acres on the CM quota has been allotted to Arvind Kejriwal ji,” it was mentioned in the post.
The party’s Punjab unit called the alleged bungalow Kejriwal’s “new royal palace”. They alleged that the state government was working as “Kejriwal’s personal service team, wasting taxpayers’ money while Punjab suffers from drugs, unemployment, and corruption.”
The AAP chief allegedly took off “from this mansion in a Punjab government helicopter, switched to the state’s private jet in Ambala, and flew to Gujarat — all for his party’s political campaign, not Punjab’s welfare,” the BJP’s Punjab state unit claimed.
The BJP received support from AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who claimed that the “entire Punjab government is engaged in serving one man.” She also claimed that the AAP is attempting to portray “the bungalow in Sector 2…as a camp office.”
“If this is a camp office, then in the last 4 years, how many people came here to meet the CM? How many times did the CM sit in this office?” Maliwal asked in an X post.
She also wanted to know how Kejriwal could be residing in the office. “The truth is that Punjab’s Super CM resides in this house,” Maliwal added.
The AAP has denied these allegations though and said that a detailed statement would be issued by the party in Delhi.
