India, April 28 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-run Delhi government has arbitrarily removed 2,000 buses from city roads without any alternative arrangement. The BJP responded by calling the claims misleading.

"The abrupt withdrawal has led to long queues, overcrowded buses, and commuters suffering under peak summer heat. The move was aimed at creating a crisis that would allow BJP's favoured companies to profit from new contracts. The sudden removal of buses is a betrayal of BJP's earlier promise of not to dismantle any of Arvind Kejriwal's public welfare schemes," AAP chief spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said at a press conference on Sunday.

In response, transport minister Pankaj Sing...