Taking a dig at the Arvind Kejriwal led government in Delhi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said it has "disappointed the mandate".
Speaking at the state executive committee meeting of the Delhi BJP, Jaitley called the AAP government an "experiment" by the people of Delhi, and added that the city-state does not present any challenges for the union government.
"People of Delhi first gave us all seven Lok Sabha seats but later in Vidhan Sabha elections they favoured a new experiment and brought AAP government," Jaitley said.
"Unfortunately the government is disappointing the mandate. Delhi does not present any challenges for the government," he said.
"Primarily development works have to be expedited but the present Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has instead chosen a path of confrontation. We appeal to Delhi government to work to give a good administration instead of creating a ruckus with political mal-intention to divert attention on failing promises," the BJP leader said.
The tussle between Kejriwal and Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung started over the appointment of a senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin as the acting chief secretary on May 15.
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The chief minister accused Gamlin of lobbying for power distribution companies.
The row escalated into a situation where another bureaucrat, Principal Secretary (Services) Anindo Majumdar, was locked out of his office at the Delhi Secretariat on Monday.
This was reportedly done on the orders of Kejriwal as Majumdar had followed Jung's instruction to appoint Gamlin as acting chief secretary.