Before the Delhi Assembly elections 2025, a round of allegations and counter-allegations has started between the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Now on behalf of the BJP, Sambit Patra targeted the Aam Aadmi Party by holding a press conference and raised the issue of Kejriwal's house. During this, he explained how the Delhi government spent money like water in building the Chief Minister's residence and built a luxury house for the CM by ignoring the rules. He explained in a systematic way how the cost of the house increased over time and when the house was ready, its cost had become very high.
Sambit Patra said that a kitchen was built on each of the three floors of this house. Due to this, the expenses increased by lakhs of rupees. Citing the CAG report, he told how the estimated cost of the house was something else, but when the house was ready, its actual cost was much higher. Money was spent in both appropriate and improper ways.
Spending on luxury items
Sambit Patra said that a mini bar was built in this house by spending lakhs of rupees. Along with this, silk carpets were also laid in the house. Crores of rupees were also spent to build a staff block and camp office in this house. He said that the entire money was given to the contractor even before the work was completed. Kejriwal had also withdrawn money for eight servant quarters, but spent it on his house. His house had eight bedrooms, three meeting rooms and 12 toilets.
Money wasted on advertising
Sambit Patra said that Delhi government spent less money on the actual scheme, but lavishly spent money on the advertisement of those schemes. He said that 54 crore rupees were spent to connect children with business. The name of the program was Business Blasters. Five times more money was spent on its advertisement. 80 crore rupees were spent on the advertisement of the 54 crore program. At the same time, one crore rupees were spent on a program named Desh Ke Mentor, but 28 crore rupees were wasted on its advertisement. Delhi government spent 77 lakh rupees for stubble management. 24 crore rupees were spent on its advertisement. Talking about these advertisements, Sambit Patra called Arvind Kejriwal as Advertisement Baba.