Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal slammed Home Minister Amit Shah over the poor law and order situation in the national capital and sought time for a meeting. The AAP chief’s accusations come after several schools in the national capital received bomb threats for the second day in a row, a third threat in a week.
In a letter to Amit Shah, Kejriwal charged the national capital is being called ‘crime capital’ due to recent bomb threats, incidents of shooting and extortion calls to businessmen. "It's so shameful that under your watch, our grand capital due to failure of law and order is being called rape capital, gangster capital, drug capital," Kejriwal charged.
दिल्ली में बिगड़ती कानून-व्यवस्था के मुद्दे पर गृहमंत्री श्री अमित शाह जी को मेरा पत्र। pic.twitter.com/ZktTbViZq3
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 14, 2024
“Crimes against women are rising, extortion gangs are active everywhere, drug mafia is spreading across the city and people are harassed by mobile phone and chain snatching incidents,” the former Delhi chief minister claimed.
Kejriwal said over 600 schools, more than 100 hospitals, malls and airport received bomb threat messages and questioned, "Why aren't the culprits being arrested?" On the recent threats received by schools, the AAP supremo asked, “Have you ever thought about the children and their parents when the schools are vacated and the students are sent back home?”
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The AAP chief stressed Delhi's law and order is under the Centre and the home minister needed to act and cooperate to immediately rectify the situation. “Among the 19 metro cities, Delhi is the number one in terms of crimes against women and murders. Drug-related crimes registered a 350 per cent rise since 2019, an average of three women are raped every day and businesspersons regularly receive extortion calls,” he claimed.
"These statistics are evidence of the dilapidated law and order situation. Now the biggest question of the people is if they don't deserve a better law and order condition in the national capital?" he asked. Kejriwal said law and order in Delhi must be brought back on track by rising above politics.
