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Chief Secretary-AAP MLAs’ spat is

nothing short of bizarre power game

“Unreal friendship may turn law, the Centre’s nominee, the Lieutenant-Governor,
to real, but real friendship, once holds most of the constitutional power and the L-G has
ended, cannot be mended,” said reinvented himself as a hostile source of constitutional
Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot. The pinpricks. Only recently, the AAP completed three
recent spat between Delhi Chief years of power in Delhi which could be described as
Secretary and Aam Aadmi Party survival by fire. The Lt Governor has always stretched
legislators at the residence of Chief the rulebook to its limits by declaring each and every
Minister Arvind Kejriwal points to a AAP policy initiative as null and void.
similar situation. The tiff has degenerated The Kejriwal government has historically been
beyond the limits of acceptable bizarreness. With entire marred by conflicts but none could imagine that its
bureaucracy standing in support of the Chief Secretary, MLAs would assault the Chief Secretary in his presence.
it would be interesting to watch how the chief minister The Delhi CM has to deal with officers reporting directly
is able to mend forces and forge friendship with the to the Lt. Governor, who is not bound by law to act on
babus. Kejriwal who has a distinct style of functioning the advice of his council of ministers. Until Delhi is a
has to be held responsible for this kind of unbecoming full State, the CM, the party and his ministers have to
incident because he allowed a meeting between the understand that they have to work within the existing
Chief Secretary and the legislators at midnight. Being constitutional arrangement. Instead of working at a
the CM, it was incumbent upon him to ensure amicable collision course with the bureaucracy, the AAP needs
relations between executive and legislator. If the senior to keep pushing for the constitutional changes that will
most bureaucrat in the Delhi government feels himself give Delhi full statehood rather than targeting police
physically intimidated, the onus lies squarely on the officers and civil servants. The leadership at the Centre
Chief Minister. The Chief Secretary, Anshu Prakash, too needs to show statesmanship so that both the
has alleged that he was physically assaulted by two Centre and the Delhi government work together to see
AAP MLAs in the presence of Kejriwal. The Delhi Police that the administration is not brought to a halt.
promptly arrested the two MLAs. Around 20 officers of
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