New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI) Lt. Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday nominated Delhi Residence Minister Kailash Gahlot to hoist the nationwide flag on the state-level Independence Day occasion, bypassing the AAP authorities’s request to permit Training Minister Atishi to take action.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Social gathering, nevertheless, welcomed the LG’s choice, saying it honoured the precept of democracy by “selecting an elected consultant over an appointed one”.
Earlier within the day, a row brewed over the difficulty with Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) lashing out at Saxena after the overall administration division refused to implement Minister Gopal Rai’s course to let Atishi hoist the tricolour rather than Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying it was legally “invalid”.
Kejriwal, at the moment in Tihar Jail within the Delhi excise police case, wrote to LG on August 6, in search of the flag hoisting by Atishi, thought-about near him, in his absence on the Delhi authorities’s annual occasion on August 15.
His letter, nevertheless, was held again by jail authorities on the bottom that the chief minister’s communication was not “permissible”.
The LG nominated Gahlot for hoisting of the nationwide flag after the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday authorised him to appoint any minister of the Delhi authorities for a similar.
On Friday, the LG Secretariat sought MHA’s clarification over the deadlock because of the “peculiar circumstances of absence of the Chief Minister”.
The MHA has the remit to problem tips concerning the celebration of Independence Day on the Centre and the states, based on officers on the Raj Niwas.
Ashish Kundra, principal secretary to LG, in a be aware to Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar, mentioned: “Lieutenant Governor is happy to appoint Minister (Residence), GNCTD, Kailash Gahlot to unfurl the Nationwide Flag on the State degree Independence day celebrations at Chhatrasal Stadium. Needed preparations could also be made accordingly.”
Explaining the nomination of Gahlot by the LG, the be aware mentioned that the Residence Division and the Delhi Police play a major function vis-a-vis the state-level Independence Day perform.
“The Lieutenant Governor has additionally famous that issues associated to the police have been assigned to the Residence division beneath the Allocation of Enterprise Guidelines, 1993,” it mentioned.
As per observe, Delhi Police is answerable for the ceremonial march-past parade after the unfurling of the nationwide flag. The programme of the state-level perform of Independence Day is finalised by the Delhi Police and the Residence Division, it said.
It additionally mentioned that the Normal Administration Division (GAD) had earlier referred the matter to the CMO in search of the comfort of the chief minister for the perform. Nonetheless, the Chief Minister’s workplace (CMO) returned the file, saying he “is in judicial custody” and, subsequently, it was not doable to hunt his comfort.
AAP, which earlier vociferously demanded flag hoisting by Atishi, accepted the LG’s choice and likewise took a dig at him.
“We welcome the choice to have Delhi’s Residence Minister, Kailash Gahlot, hoist the nationwide flag on August 15.
“This transfer honours the precept of democracy by selecting an elected consultant over an appointed one, reinforcing the significance of the folks’s mandate in our governance,” mentioned the social gathering.
Earlier, AAP chief and minister Saurabh Bharadwaj skilled his weapons on the LG with out naming him, saying he ought to contest the elections in Delhi or Gujarat to have an opportunity of hoisting the tricolour.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia additionally alleged “petty politics” over the difficulty and assailed the LG.
“I learn within the papers that when a conman Sukesh writes a letter, the Tihar administration duly submits it to the LG workplace. The LG too promptly takes motion on it. However, when the Delhi chief minister writes a letter, the LG asks Tihar officers to not ship it to him,” mentioned Kejriwal’s former deputy.
Any minister of the elected authorities solely ought to hoist the nationwide flag on the state Independence Day perform, Sisodia mentioned and added he didn’t see any issue in it.
The Delhi BJP supported LG’s choice to appoint Gahlot for flag hoisting.
“We’ve been continuously saying that as CM Arvind Kejriwal is in jail, he isn’t authorised to determine as to who will hoist the nationwide flag in his absence,” mentioned Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva.
Because the Delhi chief minister is in jail and never authorised to take a choice then clearly the Lt Governor has the authority to determine and he has “rightfully” nominated one of many senior-most ministers of the federal government to hoist the nationwide flag, Sachdeva mentioned.
