Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal targets PM Modi over policing

NEW DELHI: Reiterating his appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sparing time to look into the law and order situation of Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said at least one hour a week should be kept aside by Modi to oversee policing in the national capital.

"I would ask the Prime Minister to keep aside one hour per week for Delhi’s law and order system. If the PM does not have time, then Delhi Police should be given to the Delhi government," Kejriwal said, after launching AAP government’s first ‘Aam Aadmi Clinic’ in West Delhi.

On a day when AAP’s student wing staged protests outside Delhi Police Headquarters over the gruesome death of a young girl in Anand Parbat locality on Thursday, Kejriwal expressed concern about law and order situation in Delhi.

"The entire incident was ‘dil dehla dene wala’ (heartnumbing)," he said. On the ‘ Mohalla Clinic’ concept, Kejriwal said 1,000 more such clinics will likely be set up this year itself. Modelled on the lines of a Primary Health Centre, but with drastically reduced expenditure, the clinics provide basic healthcare at affordable rates.

Located in a slum which has served as transit camp for more than two decades to the anti-Sikh riot affected residents of Amritsar, the Peera Gadhi relief camp is part of Health Minister Satyendar Jain’s assembly constituency.