As the sit-in protest by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his three cabinet colleagues at Lt Governor’s office here entered its second day on Tuesday, the BJP lashed out at AAP government in a series of tweets.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said that the sit-in by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues at the Lieutenant Governor’s office was a “mockery of democracy”.

Tiwari tweeted: “Making mockery of Democracy, No Work only Drama (sic).”

Making mockery of Democracy,
No Work only Drama… ध्यान भटकायो पार्टी के किरदार संघर्ष बनाम मज़ाक https://t.co/X48qcTBVpf

— Manoj Tiwari (@ManojTiwariMP) June 12, 2018

BJP MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in order to hide their failures, AAP was blaming the L-G and the Prime Minister. He went on to call AAP a “drama company”. Sirsa remarked, “when fake revolutionary becomes a Chief Minister, this is the level of protest. His own ministers are hiding files and he is accusing the L-G and Modi.”

On Satyendra Jain’s fast, Sirsa said: “After mugging Delhi, now he is holding fast.” Leader of opposition Vijender Gupta also accused the Delhi ministers of sitting comfortably in the air-conditioned office of the L-G when the people outside were trying to grapple with serious water crisis.

Addressing media persons, Gupta accused the Chief Minister of launching an attack on constitutional authorities. “Kejriwal and his team’s political strategy of arm-twisting and threatening L-G Anil Baijal and IAS officers is an attack on our constitutional authorities and democratic principles. L-G occupies a constitutional post. He represents the President of India. Any attack on him is an attack on our Constitution and democratic values. The high-voltage drama enacted on Monday night at Raj Niwas after meeting L-G was meticulously planned to the minutest details,” he claimed.

Delhi’s maalik (owner) Kejriwal and company are protesting inside an airconditioned room. Delicacies are being served to them from outside while the city’s reeling under a water crisis. They are only concerned about politics and not about people’s issues,” Gupta posted on Twitter.

Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues spent the night at Lt Governor Anil Baijal’s office to press for their demands including a direction to IAS officers to end their “strike” and action against officers who have struck work for “four months”. Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Labour Minister Gopal Rai and Health Minister Satyendra Jain met Baijal at 5.30 p.m. on Monday and since then they stayed put at his office.

A number of AAP MLAs, party’s leaders and workers have also camped near the L-G office as the police barricaded the area. The L-G’s office slammed Kejriwal’s sit-in, saying it was another protest in the sequence of “dharna without reason”.

The AAP government and the bureaucracy have been at loggerheads since the alleged assault on Prakash by AAP MLAs at Kejriwal’s residence on the intervening night of 19-20 February.