Won’t let you sleep: Arvind Kejriwal to Narendra Modi

New Delhi: In the wake of the gangrape of two minor girls in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday took on the Centre over policing and said he will not let Prime Minister Narendra Modi sleep “peacefully” if such incidents recur.

 

Maintaining that ‘jungle raj’ prevailed in Delhi, Mr Kejriwal called for handing over law and order to his dispensation for one year.

 

“The Prime Minister must understand I am not (previous Chief Minister) Sheila Dikshit. I will not remain silent.

 

“We will not allow the Prime Minister to sleep peacefully if women in Delhi do not get proper safety,” Mr Kejriwal said after meeting Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.

 

Mr Kejriwal appealed to the Centre to “stop being stubborn and hand over law and order control” to his dispensation for one year.

 

Without giving details, the Chief Minister said his government was exploring all options to ensure safety of women and improve overall law and order situation. 

 

Sources said the Delhi government was contemplating approaching the Supreme Court “to fix accountability” of the Delhi Police.

 

Responding to Mr Kejriwal’s jungle raj comment, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said, “These type of remarks should not be given much importance as they are made keeping political positioning in mind. There is no jungle raj in Delhi.”

 

Delhi Police, on the other hand, arrested two juveniles in connection with the rape of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl at west Delhi’s Nihal Vihar area.

 

Both the accused, aged around 17 years, live in the same neighbourhood and were known to the girl’s family, police said.

 

On Friday night, they took advantage of a powercut in the area and  abducted the girl.