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New Delhi: The comments of BJP leader and union finance minister Mr Arun Jaitley terming the historic mandate by the people of Delhi for the Aam Aadmi Party as an “experiment” have exposed his deep frustration and anti-democratic stance. It is shocking that an individual holding an important portfolio in the union council of ministers has chosen to mock the will of the residents of the national capital. The historic election results in February which have made the BJP and Congress irrelevant in the electoral politics of national capital are reverberating in the words of political leaders like Mr Jaitley. The BJP is unable to recover from the drubbing it received in the Delhi assembly elections. The trend of BJP decline initiated by the Delhi elections has instilled a sense of insecurity in this party, which is now trying to undermine the democratically elected state government in the national capital. With nothing substantial to inspire its cadres in Delhi – where the BJP has been

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi completes its first three months in power on May 14. Member of the party’s national executive and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia talks about the need to increase the devolution of central taxes to Delhi and the state government’s plans for education. Sisodia is minister for education, finance and planning, urban development, land and building, and revenue. Edited excerpts from an interview: What are the key achievements of your three-month government? Participatory budgeting is one of the biggest things that’s happening. It has never happened before in India and as a finance minister, we have started this. People are very happy that instead of scheme rule, people’s rule is coming. We want to take this forward. We have digitized the records of villages. They will be online soon. Five of our districts are revenue districts. We wish to put the records online so that if there are illegal constructions they can be caugh