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AAP MLAs on Saturday (September 3, 2022) visited some schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and highlighted their "poor condition" to corner the BJP which has been targeting the Arvind Kejriwal government over alleged irregularities in the construction of its schools. The AAP legislators, including its chief spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj, live-streamed their visit to the schools on social media platforms, highlighting the "poor condition" of their buildings, classrooms, toilets and campuses, and slammed the BJP for raising questions on the Delhi government's expenditure on the construction of its schools.

The unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) functions under the BJP-led Centre. Before unification, the BJP ruled the three municipal corporations of Delhi.

"BJP has given such schools and education system to poor children while being in power at the MCD for 17 years. The BJP should apologise for playing with the future of Delhi and the country like this," Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi after AAP MP Sanjay Singh posted some pictures of "unhygienic" toilets and "dirty" premises of an MCD school on the microblogging site.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday found fault with the Telangana government for not displaying picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the fair price shops where rice is distributed to the people below poverty line free of cost.

Sitharaman, who has been on a two-day visit to Telangana as part of Lok Sabha Pravas Yojana programme of the Bharatiya Janata Party since Thursday, toured Kamareddy district on Friday to inspect various Centrally-funded programmes being implemented in the state.

She stopped at a fair price shop at Birkur village and interacted with the beneficiaries of the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, under which each family would get five kg of rice free of cost.

Five MLAs from Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) joined the ruling BJP in Manipur on Friday, a statement said. The statement issued by Manipur Assembly Secretary K Meghajit Singh said that the Speaker was pleased to accept the merger of five JD(U) MLAs with the BJP under the tenth schedule of the Constitution.

The move comes weeks after JD(U) broke its alliance with the BJP in Bihar, for the second time in nine years.

The JD(U) had won six of the 38 constituencies it had contested in the assembly elections held in March this year.

The JD(U) MLAs who joined the BJP are Kh Joykishan, N Sanate, Md Achab Uddin, former DGP L M Khaute and Thangjam Arunkumar. Khaute and Arunkumar had previously sought to contest the assembly polls on BJP tickets but joined the JD(U) after being denied candidature by the saffron party.

A crowd of about 150 people gathered on the main road in front of departure gate 1 of Terminal 3, Indira Gandhi International Airport demanding a refund of money or alternate flights for their relatives after Lufthansa announced flight cancellations due to pilot strike on Friday.

As per DCP, IGI Airport, due to the gathering of the crowd traffic movement was slowed down, however with the help of staff of IGI airport along with CISF, situation was handled and the crowd was dispersed.

The DCP further mentioned that efforts are underway to make alternate arrangements for the passengers by the airlines. Two Lufthansa flights from Frankfurt and Munich were scheculed to land in Delhi and were cancelled after a massive strike was announced by Lufthansa pilots over wages.

With façade of Delhi model cracking, AAP resorts to political blabber to counter corruption charges

The elucidation of these apologists accompanies daily output of the ‘AAP certifying agency’, which has been working overtime calling its baiters corrupt and giving itself ‘clean chit’ in corruption charges. These are difficult times for the AAP, though its thick-skinned leadership may deny it. The ruling party in the NCT of Delhi hopping from one gimmick to another shows that for once the AAP’s barbs-laced politics is not working.

First calling a one-day special session of the Assembly, then extending it by another day to seek a vote of confidence when nobody demanded it. This is followed by night-long dharna in Delhi Assembly premises demanding resignation of the Lieutenant Governor and finally Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the main accused in the excise scam, giving himself ‘clean chit’, all reflect at the AAP’s desperate move to remain in news for ‘right reasons’ and drown the charges of corruption against it.