Sisodia, Baijal

After the meeting with Baijal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said the L-G assured the Delhi cabinet that he will speak to bureaucrats to ensure that the work of the government is not affected. “The chief minister and the cabinet will do whatever needs to be done to prevent such incidents. If a dialogue is needed to ease the situation, then that would also be done,” Sisodia said.

“Strongly” condemning the incident pertaining to Prakash and calling it “most unfortunate”, Baijal said no government can fulfil its promises to the people if the employees feel demoralised and insecure.

“There is no place for violence in a democratic and civilized society. He observed that steps need to be taken to remove mistrust between the government employees and the elected govt so that development of Delhi and public interest do not get adversely affected,” he said in a statement issued by his office.

However, not everyone in the AAP felt the same way as the party leadership did. AAP MLA from Uttam Nagar Naresh Baliyan raked up another controversy on Friday by saying that bureaucrats who lie and sit on files should be thrashed the same way as Prakash allegedly was.

“Bureaucrats who sit on files and stall projects should be given the same treatment as Prakash,” Baliyan said at an event in Delhi where Kejriwal was also present.

The government and the party distanced themselves from the comment and instead said that the impasse between the bureaucrats and the political executive was hampering governance in Delhi.