New Delhi, 14th June 2023: The Delhi BJP authorities accused the government of an alleged RS 500 crore scam involving the panic buttons installed by the transport department through vendors in private taxis and buses. The charges were quickly termed ‘baseless’ by the ruling AAP administration.
The opposition leader in Delhi Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, addressed a press conference in the capital city and claimed that around Rs 500 crore were charged from the operators of taxis and buses in the name of panic buttons by Delhi government’s transport department since 2019.
He added that the panic buttons, however, were non-functional because of the lack of a control centre to seek in case of any emergencies faced by the passengers.
He called the issue ‘one of the biggest scams in the name of women’s safety’. He said that a delegation of Delhi BJP led by its president Virendra Sachdeva would meet Lt Governor V K Saxena and demand a CBI probe into the “scam”.
He further assured that the BJP MLAs would accompany the taxi and bus operators in the region and stage a demonstration at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence.
