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Delhi LG, Kejriwal’s tussle rockets up to ‘sun’ & ‘moon’

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New Delhi, Jan 20: Taking their war of words to a new level, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said there will be a chaos on earth if the Sun and the Moon do not operate in their own orbits, after Lt Governor VK Saxena told him to refer to the Constitution to understand the position of an LG.
The chief minister also alleged Saxena and his office have been interfering in the day-to-day affairs of Delhi’s elected government.
As the rhetoric intensified, the weekly meeting between Saxena and Kejriwal did not take place on Friday, with officials not giving any specific reason as to why they did not meet.
Earlier in the day, Saxena shot off a letter to Kejriwal, accusing him of “political posturing” during a march on January 16 to the Raj Niwas with his deputy Manish Sisodia and AAP MLAs.
The LG also wrote that on that day he invited Kejriwal and his deputy for a meeting on, but the CM refused insisting he would bring along all AAP MLAs. “Unfortunately, you went ahead to make a convenient political posture by saying the LG refused to meet me,” Saxena told Kejriwal.
“It has come to my notice through media reports that you have made many statements in and out of the state assembly over the past few days, which have been severally and substantively misleading, untrue and derogatory,” Saxena said.
“I must mention here that I was rather astounded at the fact that even as the city is grappling with several serious developmental issues, you found time to walk for long and stage a protest meant solely for posturing, rather than taking the issue to a logical conclusion by meeting me,” the L-G wrote in his letter to Kejriwal.
Saxena accused Kejriwal of making “misleading and derogatory” remarks against him, a few days after Kejriwal questioned the LG’s authority saying ‘Who is LG?’.
Kejriwal wrote back a hard-hitting letter, though he “thanked” Saxena for his invitation and sought a meeting on Saturday. He said he would be accompanied by his ministers and MLAs.
“The people of Delhi have only seen you interfering in the day-to-day affairs of their elected government. There is a lot of anger among the people over why you put obstacles in the work of the people everyday?” he wrote.
“If the people of Delhi wanted to send their teachers abroad for training then why did you stop it? Because you stop people’s work every day, the people only say – who is the LG?” Kejriwal said.
The two sides have been engaged in a public war of words over several issues including law and order, sending government teachers to Finland for training, air pollution and the cleaning of Yamuna. (PTI)

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