NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on the latter’s residence right here and prolonged “complete support” to him within the AAP authorities’s ongoing tussle with the Centre over the management of administrative providers. Kumar was accompanied by his deputy and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav. The Centre promulgated the ordinance on Friday to create a National Capital Civil Service Authority for switch of IAS and DANICS cadre officers and disciplinary proceedings in opposition to them.
This got here every week after the Supreme Court handed over the management of providers, excluding these associated to police, public order and land, to the elected authorities in Delhi. Speaking to reporters after the assembly, Kejriwal stated he’ll personally attain out to the chiefs of all opposition events to hunt their assist within the matter in order that any invoice introduced by the Centre to interchange the ordinance is defeated in Rajya Sabha.
“Day after tomorrow (Tuesday), I have a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata at 3 pm. After that, I will meet every party’s president to seek their formal support for defeating the bill when it comes in Rajya Sabha,” Kejriwal stated. “I have also requested Nitish Kumar ji to talk to all the (opposition) parties in this regard,” he added.
An ordinance must be ratified by Parliament inside six months. Kejriwal stated if the invoice is defeated in Rajya Sabha, it should ship out the message that the BJP will lose the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “It will be the semi-final of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” the AAP nationwide convenor informed reporters.
The National Capital Civil Service Authority will comprise the chief minister of the federal government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi as its chairperson, together with chief secretary and principal secretary, house, who would be the member secretary to the authority.
“Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the National Capital Civil Service Authority shall have the responsibility to recommend the transfers and postings of all the Group ‘A’ officers and officers of DANICS serving in the affairs of the government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi but not officers serving in connection with any subject matter,” the ordinance learn.
Kumar criticised the Centre for promulgating the ordinance after the Supreme Court verdict within the matter. “How can you take away an elected government’s power,” the Janata Dal (United) chief requested. “Look at the Constitution and see what is right. Whatever he (Kejriwal) is saying is right. We are completely with him,” he stated.
Kumar stated Kejriwal is doing good work in Delhi and it is shocking that his authorities is being stopped from doing its work. “That’s why we are saying that all (opposition parties) in the country should come together,” he stated. The Bihar chief minister assured that he’ll make efforts to carry opposition events collectively in assist of Kejriwal.
“We will hold further meetings. We are trying to ensure that the maximum number of opposition parties come together and a nationwide campaign is launched to demand that laws are followed and there is mutual harmony and brotherhood in the country. “Efforts are being made to create conflicts amongst folks. Such issues ought to be stopped,” he stated. When requested, Kumar stated he may also communicate to the Congress management on the difficulty of the ordinance.
“I don’t think anybody will oppose it (supporting Kejriwal). We will talk to them,” he stated.
Kejriwal was among the many few non-BJP chief ministers who weren’t invited by the Congress to the swearing-in ceremony of its new authorities in Karnataka on Saturday, an occasion which was seen as a present of power by opposition events. Kumar, alternatively, had attended the occasion. Extending his celebration’s assist to Kejriwal, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Yadav alleged the Centre is “continuously troubling and harassing” non-BJP governments in numerous states.
“We have come here to extend our support to Kejriwal. The BJP government is doing injustice to him,” he stated. Yadav stated the way in which the Centre is harassing the Kejriwal dispensation in Delhi and governments of different events in numerous states just isn’t justified in any respect. “There is a clear threat to democracy. They want to change the Constitution and we will not let that happen at all,” he claimed.
“The more they (Centre) trouble and harass Kejriwal, the stronger he will become. I can say with full confidence that the BJP will never return to power in Delhi,” he added. Sunday’s assembly was the second between Kumar and Kejriwal in over a month. Kumar had earlier met Kejriwal right here on April 12 as a part of his efforts to carry all opposition events collectively forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
With Kejriwal’s relations with the Congress removed from clean, Kumar has the duty of constructing some form of a working relationship between the 2 as he additionally sees the grand outdated celebration as essential to any Opposition unity bid. The AAP has grown in Delhi and Punjab by occupying the house as soon as largely seen as Congress territory. A piece of Congress leaders consider that reclaiming the constituency is the important thing to the celebration’s revival in these states and any compromise on it could actually hamper their plans. Kumar has been assembly regional satraps as a part of the unity train which is but to take a concrete form.
