In a tragic trail of event that has that has apparently widened the rift between the bureaucracy and the law-makers in Delhi, several prominent national and state leaders across the party lines, took to twitter slamming the episode.
It all started, with incident that allegedly happened in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence on midnight of February 19-20, when Delhi's Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash was assaulted by couple of AAP MlAs allegedly at the behest of the CM. According to the Chief Secretary he was called by CM for an explanation on the delay in release of TV ad-campaign of the Delhi government. However, when he went there he was allegedly locked in a room in which CM along with his Deputy and 11 other party MlA's were present. As per the police complaint by the Prakash, Kejriwal asked him to explain the delay to the MlA's after which the matter took to worse.
Interestingly, on Tuesday morning AAP's national spokesperson Ashish Khetan and Minister Imran Hussain were chased by a group of persons allegedly infuriated over last night incident no sooner they reached Delhi Secretariat one after other in a short span of time. Khetan had a narrow escape while Imran had to struggle hard while getting away in the lift. However, one of the accomplish of the Minister is allegedly hackled and thrashed in the incident.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh took twitter for a couple of tweet on the incident. In his first tweet he said, "I am deeply pained by the happenings involving the Chief Secretary of the Delhi Government. The civil servants should be allowed to work with dignity and without fear."
While in his very next tweet he said: "The MHA has sought a report on the incident from the lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Justice will be done. A delegation of IAS, DANICS and subordinate Services met me today and apprised me of the prevailing situation."
While on the other hand Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other's from the AAP tweeted the short videos of the mob attacking the minister Imran Hussain at Delhi Secretariat.
"Chief Secretary in his FIR says that he has been beaten up, Ministers in their FIR says that they are being chased and beaten repeatedly, there is no dialogue between officers and Government, only abuses, fight and cases. If you are short of water supply, or electricity is not there, or road is in bad condition or someone is ill there is no Government for you in Delhi," tweeted Kapil Mishra, former AAP MlA.
"When alleged incident happened at night, why did CS not call the police to register the FIRIJ" tweeted Saurabh Bhardwaj, Spokesperson AAP.