New Delhi: Delhi chief minister ArvindKejriwal, his cabinet colleagues and MLAs sat on a 'dharna' for over three hours near the L-G office asking him ‘not to stall’ the project under ‘pressure from the BJP.’ Fight between the AAP government and Lt Governor over installing CCTV cameras in Delhi has intensified.

Kejriwal and his colleagues sat on 'dharna' after the police officials deployed at L-G Anil Baijal's office told the chief minister that he and his ministers can meet Baijal, but the AAP legislators will not be allowed to go with them. Shortly after, Kejriwal, his ministers, legislators and AAP supporters sat on a 'dharna' barely 100 metres from Baijal's office in protest. "The L-G does not want to meet MLAs. He only wants to meet me and cabinet ministers.

The L-G will have to meet the MLAs. I will meet him along with the ministers and the MLAs," Kejriwal said. The protesters chanted Mahatma Gandhi's favouritebhajan "RaghupatiRaghav, Raja Ram" and prayed for "good sense" to prevail on the L-G. "Cowards bring police forward, but those who are brave believe in dialogue. The L-G's refusal to meet the MLAs is an insult to the people of Delhi," Kejriwal said. The dharna began around 3:30 pm and ended at 6:40 pm with Kejriwal vowing to reach out to people to tell them that the "BJP and the L-G are disrupting the installation of CCTV cameras in the city".

"Our MLAs will hold meetings in their localities and tell people that the BJP and the L-G are hampering installation of CCTV cameras and elicit their views on it. The standard operating procedure for installing CCTV cameras will be decided by the people, and not by a shahenshah (L-G)," he said at the end of over three hour long sit in.