 "I will need two adjacent houses: Delhi CM Kejriwal")
The newly-elected Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal today denied the two five-bedroom duplex flats offered to him by the Delhi government. Kejriwal said that he did so after facing criticism from several supporters. "My friends and party supporters have been calling me since yesterday and they think I should not move into these flats. So I have asked the Delhi government for a smaller accommodation till then", Kejriwal said at a party strategy meeting today.
However, soon after that, he posted on his Facebook page that he would need two adjacent houses for better efficiency. "I would need to have two adjacent houses, one of them as an office else I would become ineffective", said Kejriwal.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief was offered two five-bedroom duplex flats on Bhagwan Das Road, situated in central Delhi. However, he had faced criticism from several opposition parties and also, few sections of the media. He had earlier denied living in bunglow proposed to him by Delhi chief secretary D M Sapoli, a perk enjoyed by the chief minister of the state.
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Kejriwal said that he would commute from his Ghaziabad residence, situated in the National Capital Region (NCR) till he is allotted a smaller flat.
Kejriwal also clarified that the controversy surrounding ministers using the government vehicle is uncalled for. "Ministers have to use govt transport for their work and we never ever said that we won't use govt transport. We said we won't use lal battis (red beacons). And we stand by that", said Kejriwal in his Facebook post.
A few ministers of the AAP were seen using public transport to come to work on the first day. However, yesterday several ministers were seen coming in SUVs offered by the state government to them.