New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (March 25) asserted that his authorities wouldn’t let the “conspiracy” to cease the facility subsidy scheme within the nationwide capital succeed and stated he would defend like a rock the rights of the folks of Delhi. A day after Power Minister Atishi alleged within the Delhi Assembly that officers have been attempting to cease the facility subsidy scheme on the behest of Lt Governor VK Saxena, Kejriwal warned him to not complain later about “dignities” being breached.
Earlier this week, Saxena — in an obvious reference to his relationship with the AAP dispensation that has been aggressively attacking him over a spread of points — had stated that the “dignity of speech” was breached in current occasions.
While alleging that there’s conspiracy to cease the facility subsidy scheme launched by his authorities in Delhi, Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi, “Still they say Kejriwal fights a lot.”
फिर कहते हैं केजरीवाल लड़ता बहुत है।
दिल्ली की फ़्री बिजली को बंद करने के लिए साज़िश रची जा रही है। लेकिन हम इनकी साज़िश को कभी सफल नहीं होने देंगे। दिल्ली की जनता के हक़ के लिए केजरीवाल चट्टान की तरह खड़ा मिलेगा।
LG साहब, बाद में कृपया ये मत कहिएगा कि मर्यादाएँ टूट रही हैं। https://t.co/if2fGmtPgv
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 25, 2023
“Conspiracies are being hatched to stop (the) free electricity (scheme) in Delhi. But we will not allow their conspiracy to succeed. Kejriwal will be found standing like a rock for the rights of the people of Delhi. LG saheb, please do not say later that dignities are being breached,” Kejriwal stated.
Amid allegations of officers obstructing the Delhi authorities’s electrical energy subsidy scheme on the behest of Saxena, Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday referred the matter to the Standing Committee on Public Facilities.
Speaking within the House on the problem, Atishi stated, “It appears that the chief secretary and officers are conspiring… To cease the facility subsidy on the behest of L-G Saxena. A file on this regard was despatched to the chief secretary with instructions that it ought to be despatched to the Cabinet inside 15 days.
“Today, it is March 24 and the file is yet to come to me. Instead of sending the file to the chief minister, the file was sent to the chief secretary.” AAP MLAs additionally supported the problem, prompting Goel to ship the matter to the standing committee.
Earlier this month, Saxena had requested Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar to direct the Power division to put the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) advisory on restriction of energy subsidy earlier than the council of ministers and take a call inside 15 days.
The instruction was made on the premise of DERC’s statutory advisory to the Delhi authorities to contemplate “restricting” the subsidy to the “poor and needy consumers”. Consumers with energy consumption of lower than 200 items don’t have to pay any cost. Those with consum
