Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena has expressed his displeasure to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the AAP's alleged “misleading" tweets that dragged his name into the row over alleged irregularities in the Delhi Government's Excise Policy 2021-22.
While replying to the L-G, Kejriwal said that he would get the tweet removed and added that “I was in Gujarat and just landed.” Later the tweet was removed.
According to sources in the L-G’s office, "In the tweets, the word L-G instead of 'ex L-G' was used with the picture of the present L-G Saxena to deliberately misrepresent facts and mislead the people." Saxena objected to the "petty propaganda" seeking removal of the tweets and an apology.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had recently blamed former L-G Anil Baijal for changing his stand over opening of liquor vends in non-conforming areas of the city under the Excise Policy 2021-22, claiming it caused gains to some licensees while leading to huge loss of revenue to the Government.
Without taking Baijal’s name, Sisodia had said the L-G on November 15, 2021, two days before implementation of the Excise policy, had changed his stand although he earlier approved the proposal for opening the liquor vends in non-conforming areas.
Following this charge by Sisodia, the AAP on Sunday tweeted from its official handle a poster, saying "L-G's corruption in Delhi Excise Policy. Manish Sisodia demanded a CBI probe" with a picture of the present L-G, sources said.
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari also slammed AAP, asking, "Why was this tweet deleted by AAP? Reality is that Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia gave permission for opening 217 new liquor stores in Delhi." He dared Kejriwal to prove his claim wrong.