AAP hits back, says LG not in a mood to work on weekends: 5 developments

AAP ministers Satyendar Jain and Kapil Mishra on Saturday went to meet Lt Governor Najeeb Jung at his office following his fax to Deputy CM Manish Sisodia to return from Finland. However, the meeting did not materialise and this triggered a fresh spat between the two sides.

Here are the 5 big developments:

1. “It appears he is not in a mood to work today,” Mishra said taking a jibe at Jung. But the LG office retorted that it was operational on all seven days of the week and the ministers did not seek prior appointment even as it accused the AAP government of politicising the issue when the city was grappling with a health crisis.

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2. Jung had on Friday asked Sisodia to return to Delhi immediately from Finland, where he was on a study tour, in view of sudden spurt in Dengue and Chikungunya cases in the national capital.

3. The ministers waited outside the LG office and said that no appointment was sought to meet the Lt Governor since he had sent an “urgent” fax to the Deputy Chief Minister and they thought that Jung must have something important to talk about.

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4. “The LG has sent an urgent fax to Deputy CM Sisodia so we thought there may be some emergency and we both came to meet him but he is not in the office. We were told that it’s off today and he does not sit in the office. We called him but he is also not at his home. It appears he is not in a mood to work today,” Mishra said.

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5. Hitting back, the LG office said that the Lt Governor came to know of their visit only through media. “Secretary to the Lt Governor met the Ministers since the Lt Governor’s office is operational on all days of the week.  However, they neither submitted any letter nor gave any representation to the Lt Governor,” the LG office said in a statement. The Lt Governor’s office said that it is “regrettable” that at a time when Delhi is facing such a serious public health crisis, the elected government is choosing to “politicize” the issue instead of providing succour to the public.