A day after Assembly election was announced in Delhi, the politics over opulence continued to play out in the national capital on Wednesday, with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing each other of extravagant spending on government residences.

While the BJP has dubbed the 6 Flagstaff Road bungalow, which was earlier occupied by AAP national convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, ‘Sheesh Mahal’, the ruling party in Delhi has named Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence ‘Raj Mahal’.

AAP leaders on Wednesday marched to the Flagstaff Road bungalow to expose the “lies” of the BJP that it had a swimming pool, a commode made of gold, and so on, but they were stopped by the police from entering the house.

The leaders then tried to reach the Prime Minister’s residence but were stopped near the Lok Kalyan Marg Metro Station, where they staged a protest.

The AAP, which had on Tuesday challenged the BJP to throw open the doors to the PM’s “ ₹2,700-crore” official residence to expose the luxuries there, said the BJP leaders were running away from it.

Hitting back, the BJP placed banners in various areas saying that the “people of Delhi are asking for accounts of their tax paid”.