KEJRIWAL GOVERNMENT’S CLASHES WITH EXECUTIVE

January 2014:

Kejriwal staged a dharna against Lt Gov Jung demanding Delhi police be put under state government.

“It is the government of Delhi which has been voted to power by the people to run the state government. If any crime takes place in Delhi, people question the Delhi government,” Kejriwal had said.

June 2015:

Delhi government complained in High Court that the union Home Ministry’s May 21 notification gave the Lieutenant Governor absolute powers over appointments, postings and transfers of senior officials as well as matters relating to the police and public order.

April 2016:

Lt Gov Jung appointed Alok Kumar, a 2000-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, as additional commissioner of ACB. He replaced senior ACB officer SS Yadav.

Yadav’s transfer was a setback for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, which had repeatedly asked for control of ACB.

March 2018:

Lt Gov Baijal rejected Kejriwal’s proposal to award a compensation of Rs10 million to the family of an ex-serviceman who committed suicide over non-implementation of central government’s One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme.

Later, the state government granted status of martyr to Grewal.

June 2018:

Kejriwal and three of his cabinet colleagues staged a nine-day sit-in dharna at the visitor’s room of the Lieutenant Governor’s office for nine days. Their demand was for Lieutenant Governor to intervene and ask bureaucrats to resume normal work and meet ministers.