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Delhi Chief Minister Atishi with Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena (R). (PTI Photo)
New Delhi : Delhi LG (Deputy Governor) Vinay Kumar Saxena wrote a letter to Chief Minister Atishi expressing disappointment over Arvind Kejriwal calling her an ‘ad hoc CM’. The LG has also praised CM Atishi for taking responsibility of many departments unlike her predecessor Kejriwal. He has told Atishi that the blame for the failure of the Kejriwal government will be put on the current government led by her. He has also expressed concern over the misleading claims of the Aam Aadmi Party contrary to the stand of the Delhi government on the Chief Minister Mahila Samman Yojana and Sanjeevani Yojana. Along with this, the LG has also raised those issues in his letter, in which Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that the central government is conspiring to arrest Atishi in a case related to the Transport Department. Delhi LG has written in the letter to Atishi, ‘First of all, I send you best wishes for the upcoming New Year 2025. I wish that you always remain healthy and move forward on the path of progress. I had congratulated and wished you heartily on the occasion of your swearing in as the Chief Minister, and in the period from then till now, for the first time in my two and a half years of tenure, I have seen a person holding the post of Chief Minister doing the work of the Chief Minister. Where your predecessor Chief Minister did not have a single department of the government and neither did he sign files, you took the responsibility of many departments and tried to work on various issues of administration.
Calling Atishi an ad hoc CM is an insult
VK Saxena further wrote, ‘But a few days ago, your predecessor Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal publicly declared you as a temporary and ad hoc Chief Minister in the media, I found it very objectionable and I was hurt by it. This was not only an insult to you, but also an insult to your employer Her Excellency the President of India and to me as her representative. The public interpretation of temporary or ad hoc Chief Minister given by Kejriwal has no constitutional provision and it is also a condemnable disregard of the democratic spirit and values enshrined in the Constitution written by Baba Saheb Ambedkar.’
Delhi’s LG has written a letter to Atishi saying, ‘It is well known under what circumstances you were made the Chief Minister. Whether it is the worsening condition of Yamuna in the last ten years or the acute shortage of drinking water, the issue of mountains of garbage or the lack of basic facilities in industrial areas, the plight of roads and sewer lines or the crumbling health system, the acute lack of facilities in unauthorized colonies or the hellish life in slums, everyone knows how possible it is for a Chief Minister, who has been declared temporary and makeshift, to do anything in three-four months. Everyone knows how possible it is for a Chief Minister, who has been declared temporary and makeshift, to do anything in three-four months. Your leader has also publicly accepted his failures in these areas, but as the Chief Minister, now the responsibility for the failures in all these areas will be considered yours.
