The Delhi Government on Wednesday suggested to remove DCW chief Barkha Singh by proposing Hindi novelist Maitreyi Pushpa to head the women’s commission even as Singh accused the ruling AAP of targeting her for summoning law Minister Somnath Bharti in the south Delhi raid episode.
The Government proposal to lt-Governor Najeeb Jung to remove Singh, a former Congress MlA, came five days after she had a public spat with Bharti’s lawyers when she refused to allow them to depose before the Delhi Commission for Women on the law Minister’s behalf in the case. “The Government has proposed Maitreyi Pushpa’s name to the lt-Governor to head the DCW,” a Government official said.
Sixty nine-year-old Pushpa is a Hindi fiction writer and has 10 novels and seven short story collections to her credit. Reacting to Government’s move to remove her from the DCW chief post, Singh, who had lost the Assembly election from RK Puram, said she was holding a constitutional post and Government was targeting her for initiating proceedings against Bharti.