We will fulfil your dreams of Swachh Bharat, Digital India: Kejriwal

We will fulfil your dreams of Swachh Bharat, 

Digital India: Kejriwal

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, said Delhi would benefit and develop only if the Centre and state work together. Kejriwal, who met Prime Minister Modi at the PMO and was accompanied by Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, had power struggle with the Centre as his main agenda when he met with PM Modi.

"I told the PM that we may have ideological and political differences but for Delhi's growth, the state and Centre need to work together," Kejriwal said after meeting Modi. "In Delhi there are a lot of interference and we might have an ideological difference but we should work together so that Delhi can see progress," Kejriwal added.

Kejriwal said he told the PM that the AAP government will fulfil Swachh Bharat Skill India and Digital India in Delhi, but said that better communication with the Centre is needed to realise them. "I told the PM, we will fulfil your dreams of Swachh Bharat, Skill India and Digital India. We will do the work and you will earn fame when you go abroad. We will make Delhi shine," Kejriwal said.

Since it took power in February this year, Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has been in loggerheads with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung - who represents the Centre in Delhi. Kejriwal said he also discussed the skirmish between Lt Governor Jung and the AAP government with the prime minister. "I told him that in the last six  months at least 25 times our orders were rejected by Lt Governor Jung. This is being done for the first time in Delhi. I told him how the Anti-Corruption Branch was working fine before June 8."

The Kejriwal-led AAP goverment had alleged that the Centre repeatedly attemped to interfere with and hamper the smooth functioning of Delhi's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB). The appointment of Mukesh Kumar Meena as ACB joint commissioner by Lieutenant Governor Jung had become a major point for power tussle between the L-G and Kejriwal over administrative control.

Deliberating on the tussle with the Delhi Police, Kejriwal said he discussed the matter with the PM. "It seems that Delhi Police is at war with the AAP government. In the transport strike and doctors strike, Delhi Police wanted the strikes not to break down. We have told the PM that. He listened and said that right now he will listen."

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