Najeeb Jung appointed bureaucrats not attending meetings, listening to ministers: Manish Sisodia

New Delhi: The bureaucrats handpicked by Lt Governor Najeeb Jung are neither attending meetings nor listening to their ministers, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday alleged, while putting the onus of water-logging and traffic gridlock across the city on them. Sisodia along with Delhi Home Minister Satyender Jain also targeted the Prime Minister over the “shunting” out of top bureaucrats and setting up of the LG-constituted panel to examine files, alleging that it was formed at the “behest” of Narendra. Sisodia’s attack on Jung came on a day rains pounded the national capital, crumbling the city’s civic infrastructure. The municipal bodies in Delhi are BJP-ruled while Police comes under the Centre. Venting his fury, Sisodia said that since the appointment of the panel on Tuesday, Delhi government has had to focus on “appeasing LG’s officers” and not the welfare of its residents. Jung has deployed officials “starting from peons to the Chief Secretary” to scrutinise the files of the last one-and-a-half-years and due to that “three of my meetings had to be cancelled”, Sisodia said. “Why is the LG, who gave over 50 interviews on his officers, not speaking on water-logging and traffic jam in the city? Your officers are neither coming to the meetings called by ministers, nor listening to them. Few even say that they have been barred to do so.

अपने अधिकारों को लेकर मीडिया में 50+ इंटरव्यू देने वाले LG साहब अब दिल्ली में जलभराव और जाम पर बयान क्यों नहीं दे रहे? 1/4

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 31, 2016

LG साहब ने अपनी पसंद के जिन अफसरों को तैनात किया है उनसे काम भी तो लेकर दिखाएं। संविधान में सिर्फ अधिकार का नहीं कर्तव्य का भी चैप्टर है 2/4

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 31, 2016

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आपके तैनात अफसर न मंत्रियों की मीटिंग में आ रहे हैं, न उनकी सुन रहे हैं। कुछ तो चुपचाप बता भी जाते हैं कि हमें इसके लिए मना किया गया है 3/4

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 31, 2016

LG साहब से विनती है कि मंत्रियों की तरह बाहर निकलें, अपने तैनात किए अफसरों को लेकर, दिल्ली वालों की जाम व् जलभराव की समस्या दूर करें 4/4

— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) August 31, 2016

“I request the LG to go out like the ministers, taking along officers appointed by him, and solve the water-logging and traffic woes of the residents,” Sisodia said in a series of tweets, promptly shared by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Sisodia also lashed out the BJP-led Centre over the “transfer” of “committed officials”, who he said worked tirelessly to implement pro-people policies. The officials, including the PWD and Health Secretaries, were transferred despite Sisodia’s public request to Jung to not do so as they were involved in the execution of AAP’s flagship projects like mohalla clinics and construction of 8,000 new classrooms. “Committed officials who worked tirelessly to implement pro-people policies have been shunted out…LG should make officers of his choice work as well. The Constitution has a chapter on duties apart from rights,” Sisodia said. Interestingly, Chandrakar Bharti, whom the government had blamed for the delay in imposing ban on Chinese Manja in his capacity as Environment Secretary, has been made the Health Secretary. On Tuesday, a three-member panel was formed by Jung to fix responsibilities, including criminal liability, in “omissions and commissions” while clearing 400 files relating to a large number of decisions without his approval.