This Article is From Feb 27, 2015

Arvind Kejriwal Has an Appointment at the Delhi Police Headquarters Today

Arvind Kejriwal Has an Appointment at the Delhi Police Headquarters Today

File Photo: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI Photo)

New Delhi:

Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi chief minister, will this evening visit the Delhi Police headquarters, where police chief BS Bassi will make a presentation to him on women's security, a key election promise of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Mr Bassi will brief the chief minister on the measures Delhi Police is taking to ensure better security for women in a city notorious for being unsafe.

Mr Kejriwal will also interact with Mr Bassi's top officers and share his ideas on security with them, the police said.

Sources said the AAP's massive contingent of 67 lawmakers had suggested that Mr Bassi be summoned to the Delhi Assembly and answer their questions, but the Kejriwal government rejected the proposal.

The chief minister, along with his deputy Manish Sisodia, had also met union home minister Rajnath Singh yesterday and asked him to ensure that the Delhi Police is "more responsive and accountable," sources said.

He reportedly complained that the local police has not co-operated with victims of crimes in the city or with his party's MLAs who have tried to highlight them. Rajnath Singh, sources said, has promised the Centre's assistance to the Delhi government.

The main peeve of all political parties that have governed Delhi is that the capital's police and law and order is controlled by the Centre.

After his party's emphatic win in the Delhi elections earlier this month, Mr Kejriwal has made repeated requests to the Narendra Modi government that Delhi be granted full statehood, which will transfer the city's police to the control of the state.

He has called it a "golden opportunity" with majority governments both at the Centre and the state.

In Delhi, PM Modi's BJP suffered its first election setback in the nine months since the Lok Sabha elections when it stormed to power at the Centre. The wave of support that Mr Kejriwal drew in the capital swept the BJP aside; it has won just three seats in Delhi's 70-member Assembly.  
 

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