The Delhi government and the state Lokayukta are on a collision course over the latter’s decision to serve notices to MLAs over alleged non-declaration of assets in the Assembly, which Assembly sources said was not a “statutory requirement” at all.
While the AAP hit back at the Lokayukta, Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba said she will immediately respond to the notice and that it was her personal decision. On whether other AAP MLAs will follow suit, she told The Indian Express: “The party has not been talking to me.”
“The BJP has been troubling us on every possible pretext over the past few years. This is another such attempt. I am ready to make the declarations, which I would have done before had I been asked. I had made all relevant declarations in the form of IT returns from time to time,” she added.