Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena – for therefore lengthy at odds with the ruling Aam Aadmi Party – all of the sudden provided phrases of reward for Chief Minister Atishi Friday, calling her “a hundreds instances higher” than her predecessor and AAP boss Arvind Kejriwal, with whom the Lieutenant Governor has had a number of tempestuous run-ins – on authorized, administrative, and governance points – over the previous months.
Speaking on the convocation of the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women this afternoon, Mr Saxena mentioned he’s happy that the present Chief Minister is a lady.
“… and I can confidently say she is a thousand instances higher than her predecessor,” Mr Saxena mentioned, throwing a look on the Chief Minister, on stage with him, as he did so.
Atishi was sworn in on September 21 after a quick tussle throughout the AAP over who would change Mr Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal resigned days earlier – a press release transfer after securing bail within the controversial and alleged liquor coverage rip-off case and earlier than the subsequent yr’s election.
Mr Kejriwal declared he would search a “certificates of honesty” from the folks of Delhi.
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Mr Saxena did not at all times have form phrases for Atishi.
In April, whereas Mr Kejriwal was in jail, he ripped into her and occasion colleague Saurabh Bhardwaj for “a scarcity of seriousness” when summoned to his workplace to debate “routine works of governance”.
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Also on the LG’s firing record on that event was former Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot; Mr Gahlot, who was on the shortlist to succeed Mr Kejriwal, has since jumped to the BJP.
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As not too long ago as final month the Lieutenant-Governor slammed Mr Kejriwal for not implementing the centre’s flagship medical insurance scheme – the Ayushman Bharat – throughout his time period as Chief Minister.
Dismissing the Delhi authorities’s personal scheme – which he referred to as “an internet of phantasm” – Mr Saxena additionally accused Mr Kejriwal of suppressing reviews by central auditors.
The two additionally traded a number of barbs whereas Mr Kejriwal was jailed on corruption costs related to the liquor coverage case; this included battles over the nomination of aldermen to the Municipal Corporation and claims Mr Saxena was “stalling” the finances for no motive.
In reality, Mr Kejriwal’s authorities has lengthy argued the BJP, in energy on the centre, has a stranglehold on Delhi by way of the Lieutenant Governor, who was nominated by that occasion.
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The AAP is broadly seen as going through as stern check to win a 3rd consecutive Assembly election, notably after persistent assaults from the BJP (and on-paper allies Congress) over points just like the air high quality disaster and the ‘sheeshmahal‘ controversy swirling across the ex-Chief Minister.
With enter from PTI
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