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| Feud Between Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung Reaches President
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| INDIA
, 19-May-2015
9:40:51 AM |
| In separate meetings today, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung urged President Pranab Mukherjee to step in amid an escalating power struggle that started with the appointment of a top officer last week.
1Arvind Kejriwal complained about what he alleges is blatant overreach by Mr Jung, who unilaterally promoted IAS officer Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Chief Secretary, making her Delhi's seniormost officer without the Chief Minister's consent.
2"Bypassing the Chief Minister and threatening officers is not good for democracy. The Lt Governor is running the government as if it is under President rule," Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said after the meeting with the President.
3Mr Sisodia has called a meeting of all Secretaries and the Chief Secretary tomorrow morning at 10 am, say reports.
4Mr Kejriwal had earlier instructed officials, including the Chief Secretary, not to follow any order from the Lieutenant Governor without running it by him or other Delhi ministers.
5The Lieutenant Governor, who also met Home Minister Rajnath Singh, is believed to have said that this kind of order "cannot be tolerated or allowed," and the central government has to take a call. Sources close to Mr Jung say he has expressed concern about a "complete breakdown of Constitutional machinery."
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