Hardening his stand against the alleged non-cooperation by the bureaucrats, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched all-out attack against the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Centre of "unleashing" the lieutenant Governor, IAS officials and agencies such as the CBI, ED, I-T Department and the Delhi Police on the AAP Government to stall its functioning.
Addressing the media, Kejriwal alleged that the IAS officers' association in Delhi was on a strike for the past four months which he dubbed as "illegal"."As per the law, the IAS officers cannot go on strike. There is no reason for the strike, they don't have any demand," he said. "The strike is being orchestrated by the PMO and coordinated by l-G Anil Baijal," he added
Kejriwal went on to say that the officials he spoke to, have told him that they were under "pressure from the l-G's office" not to do any work. "IAS officers are being forced by the l-G at the behest of the PMO to stay on strike because they don't want the AAP Government to work. The common man is also affected by this strike."
The Chief Minister also alleged Delhi Government officials, who have been boycotting meetings with the Ministers for four months after the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, are being "threatened" into continuing their strike.
Kejriwal said the CBI and the Anti-Corruption Branch have registered 14 cases against AAP Ministers and their relatives since February 2015 when the AAP Government was formed, but there hasn't been an arrest in even one case.
"Cases have been registered against me, (deputy chief minister) Manish Sisodia, (minister) Satyender Jain. I want to know what happened to all these cases. No one has been arrested in these cases. Why don't central agencies first arrest us in such casesIJ The only motive is to stall the AAP government's work," he said.
He alleged that there was an attempt to "defame" and implicate AAP leaders in the "wrong cases". "... Every day a new case is being registered against us," Kejriwal claimed.
"The PMO and the Centre are unleashing the lieutenant Governor, IAS officials and agencies like the CBI, ED, the Income Tax Department and the Delhi Police on us to stall the Government's work," he said.
listing the AAP Government's achievements, he said people had started asking BJP-led Governments in other States why they were not improving the condition of schools and hospitals as the Delhi Government was doing "great work" in these sectors.
The Chief Minister alleged that the CBI had started investigating mohalla clinics, summoning various officials. He also alleged that Delhi Government's officials were being "harassed" and "abused openly" for working in the AAP Government.
On June 9, Kejriwal alleged the CBI and the ACB had started randomly picking files from the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), of which he is the minister-in-charge, to "somehow frame him in something".