New Delhi: Budging a little from its defiant stand, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Thursday sent the appointment file of its handpicked candidate Swati Maliwal as chief of the Delhi Commission for Women to lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung, asserting that it was “not an ego issue”, but strongly hit out at his stand that he was the “government” in Delhi, which it said smacked of “dictatorship”.
As the rift widened over Ms Maliwal’s appointment as DCW chief by the Delhi government, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia met Mr Jung and said later that the file has already been sent to the L-G for clearance. He said this was done to “stop the conspiracy to weaken the panel”.
Hours later, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sent a terse letter to Mr Jung, in which he criticised the L-G for his assertion that the “government” in Delhi meant the L-G, saying this would result in “dictatorship”, and that his stand was not only unconstitutional, but also “laughable”.
