When Arvind Kejriwal was voted to power in Delhi, he had made a variety of promises like bringing in a Jan Lokpal, providing free WIFI, installing 15 lakh CCTV cameras, taking action against Sheila Dikshit among others. Now 2 years after winning 67 out of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly, almost all of these promises remain unfulfilled.
So when Kejriwal promised on Sunday to transform Delhi into London in a single year if AAP was voted to power into the Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) people found the perfect antidote to beat the Monday morning blues and reacted aplenty. Here are a few we managed to compile:
https://twitter.com/c_aashish/status/838583395663785985
https://twitter.com/coolfunnytshirt/status/838598047575719937
https://twitter.com/bija_hem/status/838610450862510080
https://twitter.com/iAnkurSingh/status/838588977703694337
https://twitter.com/No1kaChamcha/status/838586840810545152
https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/838582491174875136
https://twitter.com/adagio_aria/status/838604376239456256
https://twitter.com/ashwinskumar/status/838573234056355841
This isn’t the first time London has been invoked by Indian politicians. Back in 2011 Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had expressed her desire to transform Kolkata into London. Efforts also seem to be underway in that regard after a replica of the Big Ben has cropped up in the city.