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BJP attacks AAP, says emergency assembly session attempt to 're-write Constitution'

For their own purpose AAP convey a special assembly session to re-write the constitution of the country: said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said the people of Delhi would have been happier if the AAP Government would have called a special assembly session to address the immediate issues in the national capital rather than for 're-writing the Constitution'.

"What is going on in Delhi is sad. They have a special assembly session. Delhi would have been happy if the special session would have been about the issues and dire necessities of the people of Delhi but despite the fact that Delhi is facing so many problems, for their own purpose they convey a special assembly session to re-write the constitution of the country," said party spokesperson Sambit Patra.

Throwing a challenge to the Centre, the AAP government on Tuesday moved a resolution at a special session of the assembly questioning the constitutional validity of its notification giving absolute powers to the Lt Governor on a number of crucial areas of administration.

Moving the resolution, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia called the notification an "insult" to the "most popular mandate" of the people of Delhi while an AAP MLA sought legislative provisions to impeach the Lt Governor if the House loses trust in him.

Strongly condemning the notification, Sisodia termed it as a "big encroachment" upon powers of the Delhi Assembly and said its issuance was like a "crime" committed by the Home Ministry which the AAP government will resist tooth and nail.

"This notification is a big encroachment upon the powers of Delhi Assembly. It was issued citing that as Delhi doesn't have state service commission, so Delhi Assembly does not have control over services. Tomorrow the central government can say that you don't have control over the sources of water so you can't supply water to the city," he said.

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