Delhi has been the battlefield of the Aam Aadmi Social gathering and the Central authorities led by the BJP since 2015. The Aam Aadmi Social gathering has been in energy within the nationwide capital since 2015. Nonetheless, the get together led by Arvind Kejriwal was fast to problem the central authorities’s management on administrative points and police. It has been demanding full statehood for Delhi as effectively. Identical to the opposition-ruled states are at odds with the Centre-appointed governors, the Delhi authorities has additionally been a loggerhead with the Lieutenant Governor.
The Kejriwal authorities, which has been in energy for almost a decade, has often clashed with Lieutenant Governors (LG), who’re political appointees executing the directives of the central authorities. In mild of those tensions, the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) has included a promise in its election manifesto to grant Delhi full statehood. This transformation would successfully liberate the administration from the affect of the LGs, who typically act as representatives of the central authority.
The tussle began after the Union House Ministry issued a notification in 2015. The notification successfully positioned the LG accountable for the capital, granting him full management over ‘providers,’ which incorporates the authority to put up or switch civil servants in Delhi, overriding the Chief Minister. The Delhi authorities has subsequently moved the Excessive Court docket and the Supreme Court docket difficult the notification. In 2023, the Supreme Court docket dominated that the Delhi authorities has legislative and govt powers over the administration and management of providers apart from public order – police and land. The apex court docket famous that the LG is sure by the recommendation of the council of ministers.
The latest dying of three UPSC aspirants attributable to basement flooding led to the blame sport as soon as once more with each the AAP and the BJP taking over one another. Whereas the BJP demanded Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation, the AAP accused the LG of hampering the work. Nonetheless, the political blame sport is simply the tip of the iceberg because the paperwork below the Delhi authorities has additionally been divided into two camps – one which sides with the AAP and the opposite with the LG. This was evident from a video launched by Delhi Minister Sourabh Bhardwaj through which the Delhi Chief Secretary’s uncooperative behaviour was evident.
एक मंत्री डेसिल्टिंग में हुए भ्रष्टाचार के सुबूत देता है, शिकायत करता है , मगर एक साल तक पीडब्ल्यूडी सेक्रेटरी अनबरासु IAS करवाई नहीं करते।
अगले साल फिर सुबूत देते हैं मगर वो मौक़े पर दौरा करने को तैयार नहीं।
मुख्य सचिव नरेश कुमार IAS जो चीफ़ विजिलेंस ऑफिसर है , कौ कार्यवाही… pic.twitter.com/DShr4Zc2KW
— Saurabh Bharadwaj (@Saurabh_MLAgk) July 28, 2024
Delhi Minister Aatishi stated, “Do watch this video of Delhi’s Chief Secretary. Observe his contempt for the Minister and the federal government…This angle and unresponsive of the paperwork in the direction of the wants of the individuals of Delhi is coming from the GNCTD Modification Act. This Act snatched the powers of the elected govt- given by the Supreme Court docket – and gave them to the Central Govt. As a consequence, the officers ONLY observe the instructions of the Central Govt. So the BJP is snatching energy from opposition-ruled states through their Governors: LGs and the paperwork. The individuals of Delhi are paying a really heavy value for this hubris of the BJP.”
दिल्ली को बर्बाद और तबाह करने के लिए BJP के LG के अंतर्गत काम कर रहे अधिकारी‼️ pic.twitter.com/MEuLAEtx9y
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) July 30, 2024
Alternatively, Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar accused Saurabh Bharadwaj of sitting on key laws for 5 months to sort out waterlogging within the nationwide capital.
The rains have again and again uncovered Delhi’s drainage system. Yesterday’s rain led to lengthy visitors jams and waterlogging within the nationwide capital. Many areas in Delhi have been dug up for laying down new sewer pipelines and the work has slowed down after the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Within the peak summer season, Delhiites face ingesting water scarcity, in winter, they face smog and shelter issues and in rain, they face flooding. Arvind Kejriwal has been promising to wash Yamuna river within the subsequent 5 years since 2015 but it surely’s but to get achieved and folks pay their Chhath obeisance whereas standing in hazardous foam. For each drawback that Delhi faces, the Aam Aadmi Social gathering discover a cause responsible another person. When there was a Congress authorities in Punjab, AAP used responsible them for stubble burning cauing smog in Delhi. After AAP got here to energy in Punjab, Delhi authorities now blames Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Equally, for water disaster, Delhi blames Haryana. For each drawback, AAP all the time finds a scapegoat, somewhat than fixing the issue. Within the AAP vs BJP tussle, the ‘Aam Aadmi’ has turn into the casualty.
Whereas individuals undergo throughout each season in Delhi, the facility tussle stays a precedence for the BJP and the AAP. If the BJP thinks that Delhiites are idiot sufficient and may’t see by way of their optics, then the saffron get together leaders are in for a impolite shock. If the BJP thinks that they’ll win Delhi meeting polls by creating issues for Delhiites and blaming it on the AAP, then they’ll get a double shock. Alternatively, if the Aam Aadmi Social gathering thinks that it could let the issue turn into worse and escape from its governance obligations, then it is their largest mistake. Whereas the LG could have been attempting to hamper the Delhi authorities’s work, it is the duty of the elected AAP leaders to get the work achieved at any value. Merely holding a number of press conferences and passing the buck by blaming the Centre isn’t going to work for lengthy. Folks will finally query their MLAs they usually elected leaders could discover it tough to justify delays in getting the work achieved.
