Atishi’s ‘offer’ to BJP’s Vijender Gupta: Will not field anyone against you if..

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Friday offered not to field a candidate against senior BJP leader Vijender Gupta in the upcoming elections, but on one condition.
The AAP leader, speaking in the Delhi Assembly during a debate, said that the Aam Aadmi Party will not field a candidate against Gupta in Rohini in the Assembly elections if he helps the government in making permanent civil defence volunteers (CDV) as bus marshals.
“If you convince Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to sign the proposal seeking the reinstatement of these bus marshals, I will urge my party not to field any candidate against you in the Rohini Assembly seat. We will even campaign for you,” Atishi said.
Around 10,000 CDVs working as marshals on public transport buses were removed from their jobs in November last year after objections were raised that they were deployed against the mandate to serve for disaster mitigation works.
Talking about the issue in the Assembly, Atishi said that an Assembly seat does not matter to her party, but the reinstatement of bus marshals does.

“We had a meeting on November 10, and we forwarded the proposal to reinstate bus marshals to Lt Governor on November 13, but that proposal is still with him,” Atishi claimed, adding that Vijender Gupta says that the bus marshals were removed at the insistence of the then Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
“I am the Chief Minister now. So, if Lt Governor values the Chief Minister’s word so much, please convince him to approve the reinstatement of bus marshals,” Atishi added while addressing Gupta.
Recently, when Opposition leaders met the Delhi Chief Minister with the demand to regularise bus marshals, Atishi had claimed that she would call a Cabinet meeting and approve the proposal. She then asked the BJP leaders to accompany her to the Lt. Governor’s office for final approval.
Over 10,000 former bus marshals in Delhi have been agitating for more than a year for restoration of their jobs. Their demand is that they should be regularised and not used as a political tool by parties by giving them employment for a few months.
Earlier, the bus marshals knocked on the doors of all the top officials and leaders, including the Chief Minister and the Lieutenant Governor with their demands, but nothing has been done in this regard so far.
Notably, a proposal was passed during the meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) that as long as there is pollution in Delhi, till the month of February, they should be given temporary employment for four months.