Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena on Monday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Atishi, expressing objection to AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal calling her a short lived CM. The stunning letter comes amid an intense slugfest between the ruling get together AAP and the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering forward of the meeting elections 2025.
“I discovered this very objectionable and I used to be damage by it. It was not solely an insult to you, but in addition to your appointee, the President of India and to me as her consultant… As a Lieutenant Governor, I’m involved about this stage of public discourse and on the similar time, I’m damage by the dialog of presenting the full-time Chief Minister of my authorities as a short lived Chief Minister…” reads the letter.
The LG might need objections to the ‘non permanent chief minister’ time period however Atishi herself declared that she’s going to go away the CM submit for Kejriwal if AAP retains energy. In truth, Atishi, dramatically, left CM’s chair empty when she assumed chief minister workplace, expressing her devotion to Kejriwal on September 23.
Right here is the complete textual content of the letter written by the LG to Atishi
Pricey Atishi Ji,
- 01. Initially, I ship you my greatest needs for the upcoming New 12 months 2025. I want that you just at all times stay wholesome and transfer forward on the trail of progress.
- 02. I had additionally congratulated and wished you wholeheartedly on the event of your swearing-in because the chief minister, and within the interval from then until now, for the primary time in my two and a half years of tenure, I’ve seen an individual holding the submit of chief minister doing the work of a non-minister. Whereas your predecessor chief minister didn’t have a single division of the federal government and neither did he signal information, you took cost of many departments and tried to work on varied problems with administration.
- 03. However a number of days in the past, I discovered it very objectionable and damage when your predecessor Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal publicly declared you as a temporary-makeshift Chief Minister within the media. This was not solely an insult to you, but in addition an insult to your employer Her Excellency the President of India and to me as her consultant. The general public interpretation of non permanent or makeshift chief minister given by Shri Kejriwal has no constitutional provision and additionally it is a condemnable disregard of the democratic spirit and values enshrined within the Structure written by Baba Saheb Ambedkar.
- 04. It’s well-known underneath what circumstances you have been made the chief minister. Whether or not it’s the worsening situation of Yamuna within the final ten years or the acute scarcity of ingesting water, the difficulty of mountains of rubbish or lack of primary amenities in industrial areas, the poor situation of roads and sewer strains or the crumbling well being system, the acute lack of amenities in unauthorized colonies or the hellish life in slums, everybody is aware of how doable it’s for a chief minister, who has been declared non permanent and makeshift, to do something in three-four months. Your chief has additionally publicly accepted his failures in these areas, however because the Chief Minister, the duty for the failures in all these areas will now be thought of yours.
- 05. The way by which Mr. Kejriwal, in your presence, is making unauthorized bulletins of schemes for senior residents and ladies within the title of the chief minister has tarnished the dignity of the submit of the chief minister and the Council of Ministers.
- 06 Just lately, two departments of the Delhi Authorities have issued public notices within the press asking individuals to be cautious about registrations for non-existent schemes by the previous chief minister. This incident is unprecedented and should have been uncomfortable for you.
- 07. Nevertheless, I additionally respect these departmental officers who, whereas discharging their duties, introduced the right info concerning the deceptive schemes and their registrations within the public curiosity.
- 08. Equally, with none foundation or info, Mr Kejriwal is publicly saying that the Transport Division and different investigative companies will examine in opposition to you and ship you to jail. This isn’t solely unfaithful, such statements additionally point out that you don’t have any concept concerning the actions of the departments working underneath you. In truth, as we speak it was additionally recognized by means of the newspaper that the Extra Chief Secretary of the Transport Division has himself written to you and knowledgeable you that neither he nor the Vigilance Division is taking any such motion nor was there ever any speak of doing so. He has fully denied the statements of Mr. Kejriwal and known as them factless and deceptive.
- 09. Because the Lieutenant Governor, I’m involved about this stage of public discourse and on the similar time, I’m damage by the dialog of presenting the full-time Chief Minister of my authorities as a short lived Chief Minister.
- 10. I want you a profitable and vibrant future. This letter of mine has been written to you personally, however within the instances to return, it must be thought of as a doc underlining and recording the present context.