New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia launched a scathing attack on Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, alleging that he was acting like a “tribal chief to please his Big Boss” by “interfering” in the work of an elected government. Addressing the third day’s session of the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday, Sisodia said that the present Lieutenant Governor of Delhi “simply does not care and is completely indifferent to the principles of democracy, the Constitution and the decisions of the Constitution Bench”. Supreme court”.
Sisodia, who holds multiple portfolios like health, finance and PWD, said the LG has an obligation to act as per the aid and advice of the elected government. He alleged that the LG has no time to deal with the deteriorating law and order situation in the national capital or the land mafia, but only wants to obstruct the functioning of the Delhi government. “But the LG says he does not believe in an elected government at all,” he added.
He said, “The Lieutenant Governor has forgotten that he should not behave like the chieftain of an unruly clan (chieftain of the clan). He has been appointed to a constitutional post and is responsible for the same.” Launching his attack on Saxena, he said that the Lieutenant Governor behaved like a chieftain we see in movies, who oppresses the tribesmen for the approval and recognition of his master.
Similarly, LG is also doing the work of torturing the people of Delhi to please his Sardar. He has forgotten that his job is not to follow the orders of his ‘Bigg Boss’ but to follow the rules of the Constitution. Lt. Governor He has insulted the Constitution, put our democracy in danger and the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court is in contempt of.”
The Deputy Chief Minister said that the Constitution of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has given certain responsibilities and rights to the government elected by the people. He said that on entry 5 of the second list of the country’s constitution, the word local government has been written with the idea that the right to take decisions regarding the municipal bodies in the country is not with the central government but with the state government.
“The LG should explain that decisions related to local governance should be taken by the state government and the LG has no right to interfere in these decisions,” he said.
Referring to BJP MLA Vijender Gupta’s claim in the Delhi Assembly that the LG had the power to appoint 10 aldermen in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Sisodia claimed, “I want to inform them categorically that the Constitution has actually This right is given. elected state government.”
Sisodia said that throughout history, the elected government of Delhi has proposed names to the LG for their appointment as aldermen, but now for the first time, the LG has “illegally bypassed and overruled the elected government, and Alderman has decided to appoint like. A dictator”.
“They threatened the officers with transfers and suspension if they did not comply with their orders to appoint aldermen and fearing this the officers were forced to accept the unconstitutional order of the LG,” he alleged. Sisodia said the government would have proposed 10 names to the LG for his appointment as alderman.
“If the LG believed that these names should not be considered, it would have asked the elected government to replace them, failing which, the LG would decide on the issue later.” The constitution bypasses the elected government and appoints aldermen it has no authority to do,” he said.
Stepping up the attack, Sisodia claimed that the Lt Governor nominated a Congress corporator to the Haj committee without taking oath as a corporator and threatened to suspend officials.
The deputy chief minister said the name of the seven-time corporator had been sent to the LG for appointment as the presiding officer of the MCD with the permission of the chief minister. “The MCD has a rule to make the most experienced person the presiding officer. But the LG clearly lied and said that six names were sent to him for the role of presiding officer,” he said.
He said that the LG had only to give his suggestion for the appointment of the presiding officer, but bypassing the government, he decided to make Shikha Rai, the first-time corporator, the presiding officer in violation of the constitution. Sisodia said, “Instead of sending the file back to the Chief Minister or the Minister, he directly sent the file to the Chief Secretary and said that if this order is not issued, he will suspend him.”
The deputy chief minister said the constitution placed only three subjects under the LG’s authority: police, law and order, and land. Recalling the brutal Kanjhawala accident in which a woman was dragged to death by a car for 12 kms, he said the LG does not have the guts to stand up and say that a BJP leader has committed a heinous crime.
He did not have the courage to go to the victim’s house and tell her family that the BJP leader had done something wrong. can be found involved in the crime,” he said.
Sisodia urged the Lt Governor to abide by the Constitution and not act as a ‘Sardar’ (chief) of any tribe. “He needs to work for the public and not to please his big boss,” Sisodia said.
MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj moved a resolution in the Assembly for free and fair conduct of MCD Mayor and Standing Committee elections, which was passed by the House. The resolution states that “This House resolves that it is concerned about the unconstitutional interference by the Lieutenant Governor in the functioning of the MCD, particularly in the conduct of free and fair elections of the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Standing Committee members.”
This House directs the Commissioner of MCD and the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi to ensure that the elections of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Standing Committee are conducted in accordance with the DMC Act and the Constitution of India.
This House also directs the Commissioner of MCD to ensure that the nominated members in the MCD are not allowed to vote in the House as per Article 243-R of the Constitution and Section 03 of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Act.