COPS RAID CM’S HOUSE; SISODIA SAYS BAIJAL WILL SPEAK TO BABUS

NEWDELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, locked in a bitter battle with its own bureaucracy, said on Friday that it will ensure that no such incident happens in future that could lead to an administrative crisis in Delhi as is prevailing now. This was hours after Delhi Police searched chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to probe the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash by AAP MLAS.

A team of 55 police personnel entered Kejriwal’s Flagstaff Road residence at 11.15 am and took away hard disks containing recordings of 21 CCTV cameras after a search of more than two hours. While the police found that the camera recordings were over 40 minutes behind the actual time, the AAP reacted sharply and called the search a violation of law as there was no prior intimation.

Soon after the search began, Kejriwal broke his three-day silence over the fiasco surrounding the Delhi government’s top bureaucrat by saying that an investigation should happen in the case.

“I am concerned that governance in Delhi is suffering. Our only fault is that we do not know how to do politics. That is why BJP and Congress are always after us,” the chief minister said.

Later in the day, Kejriwal and his cabinet ministers met lieutenant governor Anil Baijal to discuss the administrative situation of the government as all bureaucrats boycotted meetings and continued to maintain only written communication with the ministers.