No problem, says Chief Justice on Kejriwal’s odd-even vehicle formula

Seeking to assuage concerns, he said his government would not allow people to be inconvenienced.

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For that the priority for the Delhi government should be to strengthen to mass public transport system, further improve the metro service, introduce more and better quality buses and introduce mini buses or vans to reduce the number of single-occupancy cars. He tweeted, “CJI’s support 2 odd even formula is welcome n huge encouragement”. “Many things have to be sorted out”. However, its implementation could prove to be a major challenge since over two million vehicles would have to be kept off Delhi roads every day. Kejriwal said it will be tried out for a limited period and it will be stopped if there are problems galore.

Kejriwal had on Saturday said that the plan to allow odd and even numbered vehicles on alternate days on Delhi roads from January 1 was an “experiment” to deal with the “emergency situation” in the city. He said he had thought of introducing such a measure only after taking a number of steps, including redesigning the roads, augmenting public transport by bringing at least 10,000 buses and constructing dedicated elevated roads for buses.

Citing the upcoming Assembly elections in Punjab, Kejriwal said, “We are confident of winning the Punjab assembly elections in 2017”. “We will soon discuss this issue in a meeting”, Jain said. “Erring vehicles will be penalised heavily”.

He said it could be discontinued if people faced problems.

If you are regular commuter in Delhi, you’d be easily able to recall the last time you had to bargain with an autowala who refused to go by the meter. “Some problems are political and some are Constitutional”, he said. But day-to-day interference completely saps you.

About his relation with the Lieutenant Governor, Kejriwal said governing is no rocket science but he needs his own space.

“The decision may be weird but unless we have a viable alternatives, I will support it. On second thoughts I agree”, wrote another Twitter user. The Delhi CM also slammed the Delhi Police, saying they don’t cooperate with the AAP Government. They are happy with our Government.

When asked about similarities between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and him on using social media and radio, Kejriwal said the PM talks about “his mann ki baat” and he (Kejriwal) talks about “AAP ki baat”.