Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia during a meeting in New Delhi.
Highlight
- Sisodia said, Delhi government has no intention to fight with anyone
- LG claims Sisodia made “factually and legally incorrect” statements in ACB probe
- Earlier, in a letter to Saxena, Sisodia had asked under whose pressure the LG had approved the probe.
ACB check lineTwo days after he was accused of making “factually and legally incorrect” statements on the ACB probe, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday said he has only mentioned the legal point of the matter and asked LG VK Saxena to replace the AAP government. Should have kept Loop if it changed the decision of its predecessor. Sisodia said in a press conference that the Delhi government does not intend to fight with anyone, but will do so if the work related to Delhi is hampered. “I only put the position of law before him. The position of law is very clear that it should be decided. The previous LG had given his decision on it. If he was changing the decision then he should have kept the elected government in the loop,” Sisodia said.
Earlier, in a letter to Saxena, Sisodia had asked under whose “pressure” the LG had approved an investigation by the ACB into an old complaint which his predecessor Anil Baijal dismissed as “frivolous and baseless”. was. The LG, in his letter to Kejriwal, had explained that the ACB probe was allowed after a careful investigation and in accordance with the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and the law as decided by the courts.
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Lt Governor Saxena, in his letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on June 28, had claimed that Sisodia made “factually and legally incorrect” statements in the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) probe approved by him regarding alleged irregularities in the construction of seven Were. Temporary hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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