New Delhi: There was high drama on Monday night as Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues met LG Anil Baijal and refused to leave until their demands were accepted. The party of four stuck to their words, spending the night at the LG’s office.
They were demanding among other things, a direction to IAS officers to end their strike, action against officers who have struck work for four months, and the LG to approve the Delhi government’s proposal on doorstep delivery of rations scheme.
Arvind Kejriwal had tweeted last evening at 6 PM: “Handed him this letter. LG refuses to take action. LG is under constitutional duty to act. Left wid no option, we have politely told LG that we will not leave till he acts on all points. We hv come out of his chamber n sitting in his waiting room.
Earlier, the AAP dispensation claimed that several efforts were made to end the “strike” by IAS officers due to which government work has been suffering in past four months. Sisodia said that he met and wrote to the L-G five times about the strike but he did “nothing” to end it “How can elected govt work, if Hon LG supports IAS officers strike like this,” he tweeted from Raj Niwas. The AAP government and the bureaucracy have been at loggerheads since the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by AAP MLAs at Kejriwal’s residence on the intervening night of February 19-20.