NEW DELHI: All
BJP MLAs, except Rohini legislator
Vijender
Gupta, preferred to give a miss to the swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday. Gupta said he attended the ceremony considering it his “moral duty”, but found the arrangements “inadequate”.
In a tweet posted after the ceremony, Gupta alleged he didn’t get a “seat”. “The grand swearing-in ceremony organised at a cost of Rs 2 crore became a political
event
of AAP. I was the only member of opposition who came to the oath-taking considering moral responsibility. Neither got a seat nor car parking. Reached my car parked at Minto Bridge with the help of @DelhiPolice,” Gupta tweeted in Hindi. He also posted photos of him sitting in a Delhi Police van.
Several Twitter users, however, countered his claims by posting a photo in which Gupta could be seen sitting in the front row a few seats away from Kejriwal’s family members, former Delhi speaker Ram Niwas Goel and AAP MP Bhagwant Mann.
Rohtas Nagar
MLA Jitender Mahajan said he had taken the stand of not going to the ceremony against AAP’s “diktat” for school teachers. “People didn’t go to the swearing-in on their own, but were forced to do so. I don’t like to be part of a programme where the rights of individuals are violated,” he added.
Mohan Singh Bisht, the legislator from Karawal Nagar, complained that he didn’t get a proper invitation from the government. “We always got respect when Sheila Dikshit was chief minister,” he added.
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