As Delhi Budget for fiscal 2023-24 was presented on Wednesday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the national capital is estimated to grow at 9 per cent, more than the country's estimated growth rate of 7 per cent.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart and fellow Aam Aadmi Party leader Bhagwant Mann will jointly address a public meeting at Jantar Mantar in the national capital on Thursday.
The meeting was to be convened at the invitation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
In a letter dated March 5, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal mentioned that the Progressive Chief Ministers' Group of India or G-8 would convene its inaugural meeting in Delhi on March 18.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday hit back at the Aam Aadmi Party over the allegations of stalling the Delhi Budget 2023 and said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's only objective is to stage a drama and not presenting the budget or working for the development of the city.
"It's been 75 years of India's Independence, and it has never happened in the history of the country that the Delhi government was stopped from presenting its budget," the AAP leader said while speaking to the media here.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday lauded Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann for maintaining the law and order situation in Punjab amid the ongoing hunt against the Khalistani radical Amritpal Singh.
Union minister Anurag Thakur said it was incorrect on the part of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi NCT administration to blame the central government on the Budget for something which he said was pending in the hands of Delhi government itself.
After Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena raised certain concerns of administrative nature on the proposed Budget regarding fiscal interest, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday requested the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government to resubmit the Budget addressing these concerns
The Centre and the Kejriwal government in Delhi which have been at loggerheads on various issues, has now again entered into a new tussle after the Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Monday that the Ministry of Home Affairs stalled the government's Budget 2023-24 which was scheduled to be presented
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday met with the traders of nearly 500 shops that were sealed for non-payment of illegal conversion and parking fees in Local Shopping Centers (LSC).