In the border state of Arunachal Pradesh, where like Delhi Assembly the ruling party is enjoying 4/5th majority, it is alleged that Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa has summoned the state assembly on Wednesday to topple the Congress government.
The political climate of the capital abruptly turned hot on Tuesday morning when a team of CBI officials swooped at Delhi government's secretariat ostensibly on a complaint against principle secretary to the chief minister, Rajender Kumar. Also, the news of alleged horse-trading of MLAs in the far-off Arunachal Pradesh also faded the last hope of passage of important legislations in Rajya Sabha, which like its previous session is heading for an imminent washout.
In the border state of Arunachal Pradesh, where like Delhi Assembly the ruling party is enjoying 4/5th majority, it is alleged that Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa has summoned the state assembly on Wednesday to topple the Congress government.
In Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's twitter messages of a CBI raid at his office starting at 10:18 a.m. immediately got support from almost the entire opposition and from the fraternity of non-BJP ruled states' chief ministers.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was among the first to show solidarity as she tweeted "Sealing of a Chief Minister's office is unprecedented. I am shocked."
Retweeting her comment, Kejriwal replied, "Mamata Di, This is undeclared emergency."
Soon the issue was resonating strongly in the parliament with TMC leader in the Rajya Sabha, Derek O'Brien denouncing the raids at Delhi CM's office demanded that the government should make its stand clear on the floor of the house.
Leader of the house Arun Jaitley responded by saying that chief minister is not the target of CBI raids as they are being conducted at his principal secretary's office in connection with an old case and simultaneously at 14 other places.
But his defence had no impact on the shouting MPs. Soon Kejriwal in a tweet accused Jaitley of lying in the parliament saying that "My own office files are being looked into to get some evidence against me. Rajender is an excuse."
Hurling another blow at Jiatley, Kejriwal again tweeted, "Which file was CBI looking for in my office? DDCA files in which Arun Jaitley is in dock. I was about to order a commission of enquiry."
Showing unprecedented camaraderie Congress, which is at loggerheads with AAP in Delhi, joined the anti-BJP chorus that was also joined by the MPs of JD (U) and Left parties among others.
Crying foul of CBI raids being done at the behest of the Centre, without keeping chief minister in loop and at a time when the parliament in session, a united opposition sharply criticised the move calling it an unprecedented attack on the federal structure of the country. As a result the parliament saw frequent and disrupting and ended without conducting any business.
JD (U) leader, K C Tyagi described the CBI raids as "return of the emergency".
Joining the protest against CBI raids, leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad raked up the issue of Modi government-appointed Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prashad Rajkhowa arbitrarily convening the state assembly session from Wednesday for removal of the Speaker without consulting the elected government.
Describing Arunachal governor "acting like a dictator to murder democracy with intentions to topple a duly elected government" Azad demanded his immediate dismissal.
But while opposition parties unitedly fought in favour of Kejriwal, his terse comments against PM Modi, calling him a "coward" and a "psychopath" found little favour as most parties distanced from the undemocratic mannerism.
BJP demanded an unconditional apology from Kejriwal for hurling wild accusations against PM Modi. The opposition parties too described the comments as taking the political discourse to a new low.
Reflecting on day's events, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the language used by the Delhi CM against PM Modi cannot be approved of but he blamed the BJP for setting the agenda outside Parliament so the House does not function.
"When Parliament session is on, incidents which divert attention is not undertaken by the government normally…Whatever happened in Arunachal, Delhi CM office, are indications in this direction. But then what happened in Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, Lalit Modi issue in Rajasthan?" asked Yechury.
Disapproving Kejriwal's accusatory language, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi also blamed PM Modi for starting such accusatory language. He said such language is taking the political discourse to low level and need corrective measures as such language has not been used earlier even at the height of political tensions.
At the same Sighvi targeted Kejriwal for "hypocrisy" in his conduct.
"Chickens are coming home to roost. Kejriwal would demand raids at the drop of hat," Singhvi said.
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