We used money to build country, not ‘Sheesh Mahal’, says PM Modi on eve of Delhi polls

In an apparent jibe at the Aam Aadmi Party on the eve of the Assembly elections in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the Centre had in the past 10 years saved crores of rupees and used the money to build the country, not a “Sheesh Mahal”.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has repeatedly claimed that the chief minister’s official residence at 6, Flagstaff Road in the national capital was turned into a “sheesh mahal”, or an opulent palace, when Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal held the post.

The BJP has alleged that renovations worth more than Rs 40 crore were carried out inside the residence.

“Earlier the headlines of newspapers used to be: scam of so many lakhs…” Modi said during a debate on the Motion of Thanks to the president’s address. “In the past 10 years, as there have been no scams, lakhs of crores of rupees of the country have been saved, which are being used in the service of the people.”

“The various steps that we took resulted in saving lakhs and crores of rupees, but we did not use that money to build the ‘Sheesh Mahal’,” Modi said. “We used that money to build the country.”

In an apparent reference to the “sheesh mahal”,…

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