Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Monday responded to nationwide capital Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena’s letter wherein he expressed concern over AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal labelling her a “non permanent chief minister” and referred to as it a “flagrant disregard for the democratic spirit and values enshrined within the Structure”.
The Delhi chief minister slammed the LG, saying as a substitute of doing soiled politics, he ought to give attention to the betterment of the nationwide capital.
“Kejriwal labored for the welfare of Delhi for 9 and a half years. I’m working the federal government on the trail proven by him. The folks of Delhi have elected Kejriwal win repeatedly,” she added.
As a lady, I’m personally harm by your obstruction within the Mahila Samman Yojana, Atishi asserted.
Delhi LG writes to Atishi on Kejriwal’s ‘non permanent CM’ comment
Earlier, Governor VK Saxena on Monday expressed concern over AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal labelling Atishi a “non permanent chief minister” and referred to as it a “flagrant disregard for the democratic spirit and values enshrined within the Structure”.
In a letter to the chief minister, Saxena mentioned Kejriwal’s comment was an insult to President Droupadi Murmu, who appointed her, in addition to himself as her consultant.
“A number of days in the past, when your predecessor, Arvind Kejriwal, publicly declared you as a short lived or stopgap chief minister within the media, I discovered this extremely objectionable, and I used to be harm by it. This was not solely an insult to you but in addition to the president of India, and to me, in my capability as her consultant,” Saxena mentioned.
“The general public rationalization given by Kejriwal concerning the non permanent or stopgap nature of your place has no constitutional provision and is a flagrant disregard for the democratic spirit and values enshrined within the Structure created by BR Ambedkar,” he added.
Saxena additionally praised Atishi for engaged on addressing numerous administrative points after taking cost.
“Throughout my two-and-a-half years of tenure, I’ve witnessed the particular person occupying the place of chief minister really performing the duties of the chief minister,” Saxena wrote to Atishi.
The lieutenant governor additionally prolonged his new 12 months greetings to her.
“Whereas your predecessor had no division underneath his cost and didn’t signal information, you could have taken on the accountability of varied departments and have tried to handle numerous administrative points,” he mentioned.
Saxena added the circumstances underneath which Atishi was made chief minister, the accountability for failures in finishing the assorted pending works can be attributed to her after her personal occasion’s chief declared her as “stopgap”.
“The way in which wherein, in your presence, Kejriwal has made unauthorised bulletins about senior residents’ and ladies’s schemes within the title of the chief minister has tarnished the dignity of the workplace of the chief minister and the council of ministers,” he mentioned.
Just lately, by public notices issued by two Delhi authorities departments, folks had been warned to be cautious concerning registration for “non-existent schemes” initiated by the previous chief minister, Saxena mentioned in his letter to Atishi.
“This incident is unprecedented and will need to have undoubtedly been uncomfortable for you,” he added.
“Nonetheless, I additionally recognize the departmental officers who, whereas fulfilling their duties, offered the right information to the general public concerning the deceptive schemes and their registration within the curiosity of the general public,” he additional mentioned.
Saxena alleged that Kejriwal had been making public statements with none foundation or information, claiming that the transport division and different investigative businesses would probe into Atishi and ship her to jail.
“This isn’t solely false however such statements additionally indicate that you’re unaware of the actions of the departments working underneath you.
In reality, it has now come to mild by newspapers that the extra chief secretary of the transport division has written to tell you that neither any such motion is being taken by their division or the vigilance division, nor has there ever been any dialogue about it.
He has utterly rejected Kejriwal’s statements, labelling them as baseless and deceptive,” Saxena mentioned.
“As lieutenant governor, I’m involved about this stage of public discourse and, on the similar time, harm by the dialog that portrays the full-time chief minister of my authorities as a short lived one,” he added.
(With PTI inputs)