New Delhi: Amid a row over who should hoist the flag at the Delhi government’s Independence Day celebrations, senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Tuesday attacked Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, saying there should be no problem with an elected minister doing so.
The Delhi government’s General Administration Department (GAD) has refused to comply with its minister Gopal Rai’s direction to make arrangements for the hoisting of the national flag by Education Minister Atishi, as per a letter written by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the LG.
However, the LG’s office has said that no letter has been received from Kejriwal, who is in judicial custody. Tihar jail authorities have said that the CM’s letter was not sent to the LG as it was not permitted as per jail rules.
Sisodia said it was “very unfortunate” that “such petty politics” was being done on the auspicious occasion of Independence Day.
“I have read in newspapers that when thug Sukesh writes a letter, the Tihar administration duly hands it over to the LG’s office. The LG also takes immediate action on it. But, when the Delhi chief minister writes a letter, the LG asks the Tihar officials not to send it to him,” Kejriwal’s former deputy said.
He said the LG’s office should ideally have asked the Tihar jail director general’s office to send CM Kejriwal’s letter. “But, they have nothing to do with freedom or the country. People like Sukesh are their favourites.” “But, it is futile to expect democratic, constitutional (norms) from the LG and his boss.
Only dictatorship is expected from them and that is what we do,” Sisodia alleged. Chief Minister Kejriwal, who hoisted the flag at the Delhi government’s Independence Day celebrations, is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a case related to the excise policy.
