{"id":320064,"date":"2020-02-17T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320064"},"modified":"2020-02-17T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T05:00:10","slug":"ajay-maken-slams-milind-deora-for-praising-kejriwal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ajay-maken-slams-milind-deora-for-praising-kejriwal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Maken slams Milind Deora for praising Kejriwal government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302897 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken.jpg 573w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken-479x420.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>Congress leader Ajay Maken has attacked party colleague Milind Deora for praising Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,\u00a0on the day of his swearing-in for the third term in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSharing a lesser known &amp; welcome fact \u2014 the @ArvindKejriwal-led Delhi Government doubled its revenues to \u20b960,000 crore &amp; maintained a revenue surplus over the last 5 years. Food for thought: Delhi is now one of India\u2019s most fiscally prudent governments,\u201d Deora had said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Congress leader Ajay Maken was not pleased with Milind Deora&#8217;s admiration for AAP supremo and said the latter should leave the party if he wishes to but shouldn&#8217;t propagate half-baked facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBrother,you want to leave @INCIndia-Please do-Then propagate half baked facts! However,let me share even lesser know facts- 1997-98-BE (Revenue) 4,073cr 2013-14-BE (Revenue) 37,459cr During Congress Govt Grew at 14.87% CAGR 2015-16 BE 41,129 2019-20 BE 60,000 AAP Gov 9.90% CAGR,\u201d Maken had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Congress leader Radhika Khera also hit out at Milind Deora and said his comments are &#8220;extremely disappointing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs a young first time contestant I find this extremely disappointing from our senior leaders, who instead of encouraging our own party to do better are busy patting AAP\u2019s back! Food for thought: Delhi has run a surplus since 1994, this peaked in 2011 under Sheila Ji,\u201d she tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Ajay Maken has attacked party colleague Milind Deora for praising Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,\u00a0on the day of his swearing-in for the third term in the national capital. \u201cSharing a lesser known &amp; welcome fact \u2014 the @ArvindKejriwal-led Delhi Government doubled its revenues to \u20b960,000 crore &amp; maintained a revenue surplus over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[577,11863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320065,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064\/revisions\/320065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}