AAP leaders’ sit-in a publicity stunt: BJP

The BJP legislators sitting on a 'dharna' at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office at the Delhi Secretariat continued with their hunger strike for the second day on Saturday. The Delhi unit BJP leaders — Vijender Gupta, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, Jagdish Pradhan and Parvesh Verma — and rebel Aam Aadmi Party MLA Kapil Mishra also wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking his intervention to end Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues' sit-in protest at Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal's office.

The BJP legislators and Mishra had launched the 'dharna' at Kejriwal's office on Wednesday, two days after Kejriwal and his party members began their protest at Baijal's office.

Sitting outside the office of Delhi CM, the BJP leaders along with Kapil Mishra announced that they would remain on the hunger strike indefinitely.

Demanding a direction to the IAS officers working in the Delhi administration to end their "strike" and approve the Delhi government's proposal for doorstep delivery of ration to the poor, Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and ministers Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai sat on the dharna on Monday evening. The BJP said the AAP's dharna is a "publicity stunt". "People are struggling for water, the city is chocking under dust pollution. Instead of addressing these concerns, the CM has pulled off this publicity stunt," they wrote to the president. Mishra, who was removed by Kejriwal from his cabinet last year, asserted that their hunger strike will go on till the Chief Minister resumes work.

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The BJP leaders and rebel Aam Aadmi Party MLA Kapil Mishra also wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking his intervention to end Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues’ sit-in protest