New Delhi: Hours after Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal overturned the AAP authorities’s resolution to appoint a panel of legal professionals of its alternative to argue cases associated to the farmers’ protest, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (July 24, 2021) known as it an ‘insult to the people of Delhi’.
Kejriwal took to his official Twitter account and wrote, “Overturning decisions taken by the cabinet is an insult to the people of Delhi. The people of Delhi elected the AAP government with a historic majority and defeated BJP. Let BJP run the country, let AAP run Delhi.”
He added that such interference in on a regular basis work is an insult to the people of Delhi and that ‘BJP ought to respect democracy’.
कैबिनेट निर्णयों को इस तरह पलटना दिल्ली वालों का अपमान है। दिल्ली के लोगों ने एतिहासिक बहुमत से “आप” सरकार बनायी और भाजपा को हराया। भाजपा देश चलाये, “आप” को दिल्ली चलाने दे। आए दिन हर काम में इस तरह की दख़ल दिल्ली के लोगों का अपमान है। भाजपा जनतंत्र का सम्मान करे https://t.co/FQbQzuvMkL
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) July 24, 2021
Earlier in July, the Kejriwal-led Cabinet had taken a choice that legal professionals chosen by the Delhi authorities will struggle cases of violence through the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, rejecting the Delhi Police’s panel of legal professionals.
However, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia knowledgeable on Saturday the Delhi lieutenant governor has invoked his particular powers granted beneath the Constitution and referred the matter to the President.
“But, today, the L-G has changed it. The Constitution has given him (L-G) the right that in case of a disagreement with the elected government, he can send the matter to the Centre and the President of India for reference,” Sisodia mentioned.
He additionally knowledgeable that within the interim, Baijal has accredited a panel of 11 legislation officers chosen by the Delhi Police to argue the cases.
“The L-G is to intervene in issues of the city government only in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and not in every other matter,” Sisodia said.
“What is the need of an elected government in Delhi if everything has to be done through Centre via LG,” he additional requested.
Sisodia added that the central authorities is afraid that the panel of legal professionals appointed by Arvind Kejriwal will expose the conspiracy led by the central authorities in opposition to the farmers in courtroom.
Fearing that Modi Govt’s anti-farmer conspiracy could be uncovered in Court-
LG rejected the panel of legal professionals determined by @ArvindKejriwal Govt
Overturning cupboard’s selections like that is an insult to the people of Delhi#ModiInsultsDemocracy pic.twitter.com/E8JIzApuFZ
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) July 24, 2021
This, reportedly, is the primary time the LG has reserved any matter for consideration of the President, owing to the distinction of opinion with the Kejriwal dispensation, because the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Act, 2021, got here into power on April 27 this 12 months.
(With company inputs)
