foreign trips.

While Arvind Kejriwal's two trips -- to Rome in Italy (2016) and Seoul in South Korea (2018), were official, one was personal and its expenditure was borne by the Chief Minister personally.

His trip to Rome cost over Rs 6.5 lakh and that to Seoul was about Rs 3.5 lakh.

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday denied Mr Kejriwal permission to visit Denmark to attend the C40 Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.

Union minister Prakash Javadekar said it was a "mayor-level" conference.

Before the current summit, the C40 had convened six Mayors Summits, hosted by London (2005), New York (2007), Seoul (2009), Sao Paulo (2011), Johannesburg (2014) and Mexico City (2016).

With 94 affiliated cities, the C40 had four active cities from India -- Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru.

The Aam AadmiParty alleged that while a West Bengal minister was allowed to attend the summit, Mr Kejriwal was targeted.

"The political rivalry between AAP and BJP is known to all. It is very sad that this rivalry is being used for something which was for the people. The BJP at the Centre has been restricting the works done by the AAP government. They stopped various projects of the Delhi government before as well," an AAP leader said.

The leader said similar incidents happened with Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain and both were denied permission to go abroad in order to talk about the achievements of the Delhi government.

"This is not the first time the Center has done this, earlier the same thing happened with Sisodia and