Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva criticised the Kejriwal government for presenting the first ‘deficit’ budget in Delhi’s history, blaming it on a decade of financial mismanagement. He claimed that the 2024-25 budget marks a significant departure from the city’s previous record of surplus budgets, a tradition upheld since 1994.

“The Kejriwal government had plunged Delhi into a financial crisis due to reckless spending on public welfare schemes without ensuring proper revenue generation,” Sachdeva said. He outlined several key areas where the government is now facing funding shortfalls, including power subsidies, transportation, hospital construction, metro projects, and court complexes. “The reality is that Kejriwal’s government has squandered resources without generating new

Sachdeva warned that the financial situation is so dire that the Delhi government may not be able to pay salaries to its employees by December 2024.