Amid the continued power tussle between the Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) VK Saxena and the AAP-led Delhi Government, the L-G on Monday asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to hold regular meetings with him in the “interest of consciously deliberative and conflict free governance”.
In a letter to Kejriwal, Saxena said they used to meet every week till October 2022 but the CM expressed his inability due to his “preoccupation with State Assembly and municipal elections.”
Saxena said that after receiving several letter from Kejriwal, he would like to appreciate him for the fact that he had “started taking” governance in the city seriously and gotten into the intricacies of Constitutional provisions, Statutes and Acts that outline the multi-layered scheme of administration in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.“The provisions governing administration in Delhi emanate out of serious deliberations in the Constituent Assembly, State Reorganisation Commission and the Parliament of India, apart from having been clearly interpreted by the Supreme Court of India on several occasions,” the L-G stated.
Saxena said that provisions are amply clear for any practitioner of statecraft, lawyer, scholar as indeed a common citizen concerned with it, for the sake of ample clarity; I would like to invite you for a meeting where we could discuss the issues threadbare.”
Saxena pointed out that they were used to meet regularly till October 2022, where after CM expressed his inability to meet due to your preoccupation with State Assembly and Municipal Elections.
The L-G said that now the elections are over so it will be in the fitness of things that such meetings are resumed in the interest of consciously deliberative and conflict-free governance of the city, in the interest of its people.
“The CM’s office may accordingly fix up any mutually convenient date for a meeting, that I am sure will lead to broader clarity,” Saxena further stated in his letter.