NEW DELHI: BJP candidate from Rajouri Garden in the recently-concluded Delhi elections and party’s national secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa has made sensational claims on the purchase of luxury items used in Rs 33.5 crore makeover of the residence belonging to Delhi’s former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Civil Lines.
Sirsa, during a conversation with The New Indian Executive Editor Rohan Dua, said that Kejriwal’s toilet seat for the washroom inside his official residence, pegged at at Rs 10 lakh, was purchased from the Toto showroom in Lajpat Nagar.
He said, “I specifically went to this showroom as a decoy customer to verify this. They confirmed that the same model was supplied to Kejriwal’s residence,”.
A CAG report had recently said that Kejriwal’s office had coughed up a colossal items on redoing the house of chief minister.
He further claimed that Kejriwal’s residence was replete with extravagant items sourced from Sheesh Mahal, including expensive curtains, wooden flooring, and marble fittings.
“I went to the curtain sellers, the wooden flooring vendors, and the marble suppliers. I investigated everything,” he mentioned.
Sirsa also alleged that Kejriwal’s luxurious lifestyle contradicts his public persona of simplicity.
“He says he prefers a small house, but he lives in a lavish mansion worth crores. He talks about honesty, yet spends extravagantly on private jets and luxury items,” he stated.
He also recollecting an anecdote from a private airline staff, saying that he told him that Kejriwal once rejected a private jet ride from Bengaluru to Delhi due to an unclean seat, demanding another aircraft instead to Bengaluru.
“The owner of the airline told me that Kejriwal sent back the jet because he found the seat dirty. Who does that mean? Isn’t he a hypocrite” he questioned.
Sirsa further criticized Kejriwal’s political stance, claiming that he has double standards when it comes to honesty.
“He once called out Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over corruption and irregularities but later aligned with them. His idea of honesty is highly questionable,” he stated.
Sirsa has served as an MLA of Rajouri Garden twice.
He also served as the President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, having been first elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017.
