Activists of BJP today marched through the streets here demanding the removal of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the wake of a court ordering registration of an FIR against her for allegedly misusing government funds for a 2008 pre-assembly poll campaign.
The party took out the procession from the Assembly secretariat to the Lt Governor's office demanding immediate sacking of Dikshit.
Senior party leaders, including Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel, Leader of the Opposition V K Malhotra, former Delhi unit presidents Harsh Vardhan and Vijender Gupta, later submitted a memorandum to Lt Governor Najeeb Jung in which they gave a detailed account of the case in which the court ordered filing of the FIR against Dikshit.
"There seems to be conspiracy of silence as even four days after the court order, neither the police got any court order nor have we been able to get the same. There are attempts to shield the chief minister," Goel said.
"The continuance of the Chief Minister under present circumstances is against the ethos of democracy. The people have lost faith in the Congress government completely. The Chief Minister's refusal to demit the office on her own is nothing but a fraud," he charged.
A city court had on Saturday ordered registration of an FIR against Dikshit on a complaint filed by Vijender Gupta in which he alleged she had misused government funds to the tune of Rs 22.56 crore in an advertisement campaign ahead of the 2008 Assembly polls.
