Will lock Kejriwal’s home if notice to Haj committee not withdrawn: BJP

The Delhi government did not respond to requests for comment on the issue.

“The BJP stands with Muslims of Delhi and challenges Kejriwal to lock the Haj House… it is regrettable that Arvind Kejriwal has issued a notice like this in this pious Ramzan month, it seems he (Kejriwal) has lost his mental balance… We strongly condemn the Tughlaqi decree issued by Kejriwal to harass the Muslims of Delhi during the month of Ramzan,” Bidhuri said.

“If the Haj House is lost, then the government residence of the Delhi Chief Minister will also be locked. It would have been better if Kejriwal had called minority leaders first and discussed the problem but he has chosen the path of confrontation and the BJP accepts his challenge,” the LOP also said, adding that the party would hit the streets with citizens from the Muslim community over the issue if the notice was not withdrawn.

According to the BJP, the office of the committee had been serving out of the building for the last three decades; the party argued that for the last eight years, the committee was under the administrative control of the AAP and it was under its tenure that rental dues of over Rs 1.31 crore had accumulated.

Atif Rasheed, in-charge of the Delhi BJP Minority Morcha, alleged that the notice was part of the government’s bid to obstruct the Centre-backed facilities for Haj pilgrims announced recently and had taken to issuing notices to avenge its “humiliating defeat” in the Delhi Haj Committee elections in February.

“The government has given proof of vendetta politics by issuing notices. There are many such properties of the government whose rent is still due, no notice was sent to them, but after not being able to make its own chairperson in the Haj Committee, the Kejriwal government is bent on revenge,” Rasheed alleged.

Delhi Haj Committee chairperson Kausar Jahan had, earlier this month, alleged that on the one hand, the AAP government was trying to stall the committee’s daily work and on the other, the Chief Minister was not responding to its letters regarding Haj preparations.