Delhi Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj stressed on Thursday that the Delhi police should safeguard assets created and upgraded for the G20 Summit and ensure these are not stolen or damaged after the key meeting.
In a telephonic interview, the senior AAP leader said that for such events, proper planning has to be done so that people are not inconvenienced.
“It is good that such events are being held in Delhi. But there is a caveat. For the last 10 days, people have been facing traffic jams. If you want the support of people for such events, it has to be ensured that they are not inconvenienced. There should be proper planning by Delhi Police and its traffic unit for it,” he said. Bharadwaj said that the Delhi Police has to ensure strict action against those who steal or tamper with the assets that have been created in Delhi for the summit.
In the run-up to the summit, there has been a controversy over the allocation of funds for the beautification of Delhi.
Union Minister Meenakashi Lekhi claimed on Monday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government did nothing for Delhi’s development during its nine-year rule and that it was the Centre that bore almost all the expenses for G20 Summit preparations in the city.
Responding to the charge, Bharadwaj claimed, “I can say with responsibility that the Centre did not provide any funds. I have a file in which the chief secretary himself wrote that all departments have to spend their own money.
