{"id":4393,"date":"2020-01-23T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2020-01-23T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:01:08","slug":"delhi-polls-shashi-tharoor-alleges-financial-lapses-by-aap-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4393","title":{"rendered":"Delhi polls: Shashi Tharoor alleges financial lapses by AAP government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>Congress leader Shashi Tharoor raised questions about the construction of classrooms and purchase of anti-pollution masks in Delhi by the AAP government and demanded answers for alleged financial irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Another Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee alleged that Delhi had become the &#8220;rape capital&#8221; under the Modi and Kejriwal governments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aam Aadmi Party started off claiming to combat corruption. Would they care to explain where this money went?&#8221; Tharoor asked on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Delhi government undertook the construction of 12,782 classrooms for a total expenditure of Rs 2,892 crore and sought to know how much a classroom cost.<\/p>\n<p>Our people have estimated that all of this could have been done comfortably for a maximum spending of Rs 800 crore, whereas Rs 2,892 crore have been spent. Do we have a Rs 2,000-crore scam on our hands here?&#8221; he asked in a video posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>AAP didn&#8217;t respond to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor also alleged financial irregularities in the AAP&#8217;s procurement of anti-pollution masks for schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did they charge the taxpayer all that they spent? Did they charge the taxpayer more than they should have spent?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did they give the children anti-pollution masks that could actually protect them? These financial irregularities must be addressed forthwith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor accused AAP of spending more money on advertising than on development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor raised questions about the construction of classrooms and purchase of anti-pollution masks in Delhi by the AAP government and demanded answers for alleged financial irregularities. Another Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee alleged that Delhi had become the &#8220;rape capital&#8221; under the Modi and Kejriwal governments. &#8220;Aam Aadmi Party started off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}