Is Lt Governor not ‘disrupting’ an elected govt, Kejriwal wonders

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 15

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today accused Lt Governor Anil Baijal of encouraging officers to hide files from his Cabinet colleagues and wondered if the LG was not "disrupting" the elected AAP government.

The comments came a day after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote to Baijal seeking action against officials of the Education Department who he alleged were sending files on teachers training to the LG office without consulting him.

However, in a response to Sisodia's letter, Baijal had written to him seeking to know who has given this impression to the Deputy Chief Minister that his office has given instructions not to show any file concerning teachers to the minister-in-charge.

Statement issued by the LG office that he had not asked officials to hide files from ministers.

"Isn't LG disrupting an elected government by encouraging officers not to show files to ministers? Why are files related to teachers being hidden from education minister? How does an education minister run schools like this?," Kejriwal tweeted.

Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, was irked by the move of Directorate of Education (DoE) officials and Chief Secretary of sending the file to the LG office with a detailed plan of a visit of principals and teachers to Finland for training.

The minister had alleged that the officers have been "killing democracy" on the "directions" of the LG office by not consulting him before sending the file.

In the recent past, the Deputy Chief Minister had also claimed that officers are not showing files to him on the directions of the LG.