Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and said if all the opposition parties come together against the ordinance, then the bill can be defeated in the Rajya Sabha. Then it will be a semifinal before 2024 and the message that the BJP will be defeated will be clear. “Nitish Kumar said he stands with us and will fight against the injustice that the Centre did to Delhi. Nitish Kumar is now uniting the opposition across the country. I told him that if all non-BJP parties come together against the bill, then it can be defeated in the Rajya Sabha,” Kejriwal said.
LG indulging in ‘dirty politics,’ complaints by officers ‘fake,’ says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Nitish Kumar said the Delhi ordinance move of the Centre is very surprising. “We of course support Kejriwal. We are trying to unite the opposition parties in all states and end the environment of hate and conflict,” Nitish Kumar said.
“Eight days ago, the Supreme Court gave all powers to the elected government in Delhi, the Centre introduced an ordinance to incapacitate the Delhi government. Now the ordinance gives all power to the LG; he will rule Delhi. The Supreme Court verdict was unanimous and it’s unconstitutional that the judgement has been overturned,” Kejriwal said.
The AAP has already decided to approach the Supreme Court against the ordinance which was brought by the law ministry on Friday. The Centre has also filed a review plea in the Supreme Court on the earlier order.
As the decade-long tussle between LG and the Delhi government gets stoked, the BJP said the ordinance is necessary to maintain Delhi’s dignity as the AAP government resorted to hooliganism after Supreme Court’s order.
The authority over the government officials posted in Delhi is the bone of contention here. After the Supreme Court ruled that the Delhi government has the power to transfer the officers, the AAP government transferred services secretary Ashish More. IAS officer More, on the other hand, complained against minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and said the minister had a personal vengeance against him.
LG’s office claimed complaints were received from chief secretary Naresh Kumar, special secretaries Kinny Singh, YVVJ Rajasekhar, and power secretary Shurbir Singh. Rajasekhat was overseeing the case of Kejriwal’s residence renovation.
