In his bid to end the impasse between the Delhi Government and the lieutenant Governor (l-G) Anil Baijal, Rajya Sabha member and senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday and said the Centre has agreed to take up the current situation in Delhi with the l-G and find a solution to the ongoing row over governance.
“I narrated to him the entire situation in Delhi and how IAS officers have been avoiding important government meetings during the past four months,” Singh said.
“The Home Minister has promised that he will take up the matter with the l-G and find a solution to the issue,” he said.
Kejriwal, along with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and cabinet ministers Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai, have been camping in Raj Niwas -- the official accommodation-cum-office of Baijal -- since Monday evening.
They have been demanding a direction to the IAS officers working in the Delhi administration to end their undeclared strike, action against officers who have struck work for “four months” and approval to his government's proposal for doorstep delivery of ration to the poor.
Singhalleged that Anil Baijal wants the people of the national capital to suffer as neither he nor the Prime Minister is “concerned” to address the issue his party has raised.
AAP leader's allegations came on the fifth day of the sit-in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues are holding at Baijal's office. Their demand is that l-G should act to end the “strike” by IAS officers in Delhi and also approve the AAP government's ambitious plan to deliver ration at the doorstep.
Health Minister Satyendar Jain is on an indefinite hunger-strike there since Tuesday and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia joined him in the fast on Wednesday in support of their demands. The l-G's office has criticised the AAP leaders' sit-in as one more “dharna without reason”.
“Delhi's people are facing so many problems and the l-G wants them to suffer,” Singh said, a day after Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi citing instances when government work suffered because of the alleged strike by IAS officers. The officers have denied the allegations.
Singh said the l-G, the Centre and Prime Minister Modi are “not concerned about the resolution of the issue”.