Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC) former vice chairman Jasmine Shah on Saturday accused Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena is abusing his high constitutional office every single day to do BJP’s bidding with complete disregard to constitutional norms and Supreme Court judgments.
Terming the Lieutenant Governor’s allegations of causing financial loss as laughable, complete nonsense, slanderous and without a shred of evidence, Shah said that he has no powers to remove Delhi govt appointed directors on the board of Discoms.
“Yet he goes around openly saying that he will not follow SC orders and he has absolute authority over every matter in Delhi,” he said. “It is becoming clear that he is being targeted personally by the present LG in a calculated and pre-meditated manner starting with the illegal sealing of my office at DDCD (Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi) last November”.
“ I would only like to ask the LG what is my fault? That I am a young, educated professional holding degrees from IIT Madras and Columbia University who dared to sacrifice his career to serve people of my country under the leadership of CM Kejriwal?,” Shah said in a statement.
“Prior to my appointment on the board of Delhi Discoms along with Mr Naveen Gupta and two other professionals in 2019, only bureaucrats were appointed. A study on their performance showed that they did not contribute anything to the Discoms and often skipped board meetings. Keeping this in mind, CM Arvind Kejriwal decided to appoint qualified professionals on the board to oversee the performance of Discoms”.
“In our tenure as Directors, all the three Discoms have emerged as India’s top-ranked Discoms in a study of 60 Discoms across 23 consumer service parameters published by the Central govt.
They have among the lowest T&D losses in the country today, are leading Delhi’s ambitious transition to renewable power and electric vehicles, and provide free, 24x7 electricity to 2 crore residents of Delhi.
But the LG doesn’t want that and therefore wants to revert back to the old system of appointing bureaucrats to oversee Discoms,” reads the statement.