NEW DELHI: Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) VK Saxena praised Chief Minister Atishi on Friday, saying that she is a “thousand times better” than her predecessor, Arvind Kejriwal. Saxena made the remarks during the seventh convocation ceremony of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women in the national capital.
The remark was made by the Delhi L-G, who is administrative head of the national capital, after several rounds of standoff with the AAP-led government in the recent past.
In the first week of August, in a letter to the L-G, Kejriwal, the then CM Arvind Kejriwal, had said that the then cabinet minister Atishi would hoist the national flag in his place during the Delhi government’s Independence Day programme. Meanwhile, the L-G nominated the then Delhi Home Minister Kailash Gahlot to hoist the national flag. Even Delhi government’s General Administration Department (GAD) refused to comply with its minister Gopal Rai’s direction to make arrangements for Atishi to hoist the national flag in the city.
Both LG and the Delhi government were at loggerheads recently over civic issues, health services, poor condition of city areas, Yamuna cleaning besides other problems.
In an earlier tweet, L-G had targeted the AAP government saying, “During the inspection of Rangpuri, Aya Nagar, Jaunapur area of South Delhi on the repeated requests of local residents, a horrific example of failure and mismanagement of the local government was once again seen. The mess of electric wires hanging dangerously, women holding pipes in their hands for drinking water, open manholes, heaps of garbage and sewer water flowing in the streets is unforgivable.
“The mismanagement that was seen here was also seen during the inspection of North-East Delhi and North-West Delhi. Due to the government’s negligence and indifference for the last 10 years, most of the people of Delhi are forced to live a life worse than hell. If the government had worked honestly for even two years during the last 10 years, then such a plight would not have happened,” he had posted on X.
AAP, L-G and their standoffs
The remark was made by the Delhi L-G, who is administrative head of the national capital, after several rounds of standoff with the AAP-led government in the recent past. In the past few months, both have been at loggerheads over multiple issues — flag hoisting on August 15, Yamuna cleaning, reinstatement of bus marshalls and other matters