by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Arvind Kejriwal
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that his government will approach the Supreme Court for a stay on the ongoing sealing drive, after a meeting between the ruling AAP and BJP ended in chaos and a political blame game.
The sealing of shops and businesses — even doctors’ clinics — located in residential premises in the city is being carried out by a Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee and implemented by the three BJP-led Municipal Corporations.
The Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that their leaders were attacked by the Aam Aadmi Party volunteers near the Chief Minister’s residence, where they had gone for a meeting. On the other hand, the AAP claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders walked out of the meeting.
BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition in Assembly Vijender Gupta urged Lt Governor Anil Baijal to order a high-level probe into the meeting issue.
“Strongest possible action is essential to ensure such incidents do not recur. Such violence, falsehood, and intolerance on Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom day is tragic,” Gupta said.
On the other hand, Kejriwal said the BJP delegation led by its Delhi unit President Manoj Tiwari walked out of the meeting instead of trying to come up with suggestions that could be presented to the Lt Governor for remedial measures.
Kejriwal said: “All our MLAs and councillors had gathered for the meeting with the BJP delegation. But they refused to have a discussion in front of everyone.”
“There is nothing confidential about it. It is nobody’s personal issue. It is a public matter. I begged them to sit down, discuss, and together find a solution to the sealing drive. But they just walked out,” he said.
Tiwari later said that the AAP should end “urban naxalism” and said that a complaint had been filed at the Civil Lines police station.
“The AAP had over 150 supporters at the meeting. We wanted a meeting in a closed room. They misbehaved with our women Mayors and our MLA Vijender Gupta and disrupted the meeting. This is is highly condemnable,” Tiwari told reporters.
After the meeting ended, with both sides blaming each other, Kejriwal visited many markets, including in Hauz Khas, Sadar Bazar, Chandni Chowk, and Hudston Lane to take stock of the sealing drive.
Addressing a gathering in Meherchand Market in South Delhi, the Chief Minister said that the AAP government was “totally against sealing occurring in the city”.
“In the next two to three days, the Delhi government will file a petition in the Supreme Court to get a stay on the sealing drive,” Kejriwal said.
“We will put all your problems in the petition and get a stay from the Supreme Court,” the Chief Minister said.
Kejriwal said that traders were not given notice before the sealing and termed the drive as “hooliganism”.
The Chief Minister said that he had written a letter to the Lt Governor to urge him to implement four steps to put an end to the drive.
Kejriwal said that the Lt Governor and the central government have the powers to implement these steps and they can end the drive in 24 hours if they wish to do so.
AAP leader Dilip Pandey sat on a hunger strike near the Civic Centre in Central Delhi, alleging that the BJP was responsible for the ongoing sealing drive.
Later, AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj tweeted that the three Municipal Corporation Commissioners will appear before an Assembly committee on the issue on Wednesday, wherein Delhi officials concerned too will be present.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Buzz
Arvind Kejriwal (File Photo)
New Delhi: (IANS) The Central government has returned to the Delhi government 14 bills passed by the Delhi assembly, triggering a fresh row between the BJP-led NDA and the AAP regime in the national capital.
Centre rejects 14 bills passed by Delhi Assembly. Shouldn’t Delhi Assembly have the power to make its own laws, the Aam Aadmi Party said on its twitter handle as news about the Central government decision went viral on social networking and television channels.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lost no time in attacking the Central government and also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Modi’s slogan — Na kaam karoonga, na karne doonga (Neither will I work, nor will I let others work),” Kejriwal tweeted.
He also said the central government had no intention of clearing the bills. “They are interfering in everything.”
“Should the central government have the right to block every work done by the Delhi government? Is the Centre the headmaster of the Delhi government,” he asked.
Confirming that some draft legislations passed by the Delhi Assembly have been sent back, a source in the Union Home Ministry said: The Delhi government has been asked to clarify on certain issues in the bills.”
The returned bills reportedly include the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill 2015 which the AAP had described as the “strongest anti-corruption legislation in the country.
Supporting the Central government decision, the leader of the opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the bills passed by Delhi Assembly had legal loopholes and alleged that the Kejriwal government has not been following the established procedures in the matters.
AAP spokesperson Sanjay Singh alleged that among the bills sent back by the Centre include matters related to running of private schools in Delhi, minimum wages, citizen charter bill, and the Majithia Wage Board report bill for journalists.
The Modi government has stopped three bills related to check the loot by the private schools, Singh said in a series of tweets.
The return of the bills comes close on the heels of President Pranab Mukherjee declining to give his assent to a bill to exclude the post of Parliamentary Secretaries from the “Office of Profit”.
AAP legislator Somnath Bharti lashed out at the Central government saying it is not allowing the Delhi government to work in the interests of people of Delhi”.
In the past also the central government has been interfering in every aspect of the governance in the city, Bharti said.
BJP leader R.P. Singh alleged that the Delhi government does not follow the rule of law.
Delhi is a Central-administered state which means everything has to pass through the Lt. Governor, and then only can it go to the Centre; but they (Delhi government) says they don’t believe in the law and the system, Singh said.
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Employment, Government Jobs
New Delhi:(IANS) The Delhi government will soon organise its second job summit in the national capital after holding meeting with various companies and organisations, the city’s Labour and Employment Minister Gopal Rai said on Monday.
He said the government would on August 27 convene a meeting with various companies and organisations such as Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry , Confederation of Indian Industries and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India to discuss various aspects of the summit.
“After the success of the first job summit, we are planning to organise the second job summit. It will be an open platform where all people can come and apply for jobs,” Rai said at a press conference at the Delhi Secretariat.
The first summit was only for those who had registered in advance but the second one will be thrown open to everyone.
Earlier this month, during the 11-day summit, a total of 2,108 people, including 300 disabled, were selected by 38 companies.
The jobs offered included security guards, attendants, helpers, housekeeping, tele-callers, financial planning advisers, drivers, peons and data entry operators.
