Congress spokesperson Shobha Oza told reporters that the Aam Aadmi Party Government is spending Rupees 16 lakh a day on Newspaper Ads, in and outside Delhi, reveals the RTI.
"This shows that AAP is nothing but Arvind Advertisement Party", she said adding that the Delhi Govt has yet not given the amount spent on TV, Radio Ads and Publicity Hoardings which was sought under the RTI.
Besides, she dubbed as 'blatant misuse" of money of Delhi taxpayers in outstation ads in Kerala, Bangalore, Chennai and other cities.
She said the irony is that Kejriwal doesn't have money to pay the salary of poor sanitation workers, the old age pension, widow pension and even the pension of disabled people have been delayed for months.
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Besides, she claimed that such huge Advertisement contracts will also have an effect on the neutrality of media houses. "By virtue of such enormous funding by Govt., the media is under pressure to not talk about the opposition and even overlook public issues on which the Govt is on a sticky wicket. It's white collar corruption", she said.
She took a dig at Finance minister Arun Jaitley's suggestion apparently hitting at AAP that excessive advertisement is acquiring the proportion of political bribing. "We would like to tell Jaitley - The Biggest "Political Bribe" in the History of Political India" is the promise of "Acche Din", she remarked.