“If anyone has any questions then please go ahead,” said Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to reporters while addressing a press confer...
“If anyone has any questions then please go ahead,” said Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to reporters while addressing a press conference on July 11. He answered more than five questions about the Aam Aadmi Party’s governance. On July 14, in another press conference, Kejriwal responded to a question from a reporter about the demolition of a church in South Delhi that month, which sparked a political row.
None of these interactions, however, took place in Delhi. Instead, Kejriwal was speaking to journalists in Uttarakhand and Goa – states where his party is hoping to make a splash in assembly elections next year. In the city-state that Kejriwal and AAP currently govern, the chief minister has not held a single press conference for over a year.
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Kejriwal and the deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia have resorted to addressing the media and the public through a live webcast. The webcast lasts barely a few minutes with the chief minister providing daily updates on the government’s initiatives and the number of Covid-19 cases.
But they do not answer any questions from reporters. Instead, for over a year, there has been no way for reporters to send their questions during the webcast, multiple reporters covering the...
