Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is not at all conscious of his constitutional duties due to which people of Delhi are suffering, Congress leader Sheila Dikshit said as she lambasted the AAP leader for his sit-in protest inside the Raj Niwas that entered its third day today.
Dikshit, a three-time Delhi Chief Minister, said it was "completely unacceptable" that head of the government was sitting on a "dharna" at the Lt Governor's house when the city was reeling under severe water crisis and other problems.
The veteran Congress leader said people of Delhi had given Kejriwal a "huge" majority and he does not have any option of staying away from his responsibilities and inflicting pain and miseries on the common man.
"What message you are giving? It (dharna) makes no sense. People of Delhi are very very disappointed because they brought him with a huge majority. There is not a single Congress MLA in Delhi Assembly. BJP had won only 3 seats. You had sweep and this is how you are misutilising it," Dikshit told PTI in an interview.
Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and two other Delhi ministers have been on sit-in protest at Lt Governor Anil Baijal's office demanding directions to the IAS officers to end their "strike" and cooperate with the AAP government.
Referring to Delhi's administrative structure, Dikshit said there were limitations of powers for the Delhi chief minister and the constraints coming in the way of governance can be overcome by being logical and not by adopting a confrontational approach.
"This is a crisis. The chief minister of Delhi sitting at the Lt Governor's house on a kind of a dharna is just not acceptable. Delhi is at a standstill and because of it (protest by CM) citizens are suffering," said Dikshit, whose 15-year rule had come to an end in 2013 following AAP's foray into politics.
On Kejriwal's run-ins with the Centre as well as with the bureaucrats, she said, "You are inviting everything yourself and then trying to make a martyr of yourself."