A midnight meeting with Delhi CM has a top babu leaving in a huff. Another blow to livid bureaucrats.
SLAPGATE or Dangal II, as TV channels are calling it, starts with talk about a midnight meeting. It was, the story goes, to discuss ration allocations in Delhi but the minister and secretary in charge of civil supplies are absent. IAS officer Anshu Prakash, chief secretary of Delhi, is summoned to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on the intervening night of February 19 and 20. Prakash complains to the police hours later that the meeting was just an exercise in browbeating and physical bullying. It unites the bureaucracy across the country in anger.
Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, Prakash’s police complaint states, “started shouting at me and abused me… for not doing enough for publicity of the government.” His description is stark: MLAs closed the door, squashed him between AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan and another MLA—and demanded to know why he was not releasing the publicity spots. His refusal, citing a Supreme Court order, further inflamed the MLAs, in Prakash’s version. Two nearest him “suddenly…without provocation, started…assaulting me and hit several blows with fists on my head and temple.” He has called it a ‘conspiracy’, a ‘premeditated’ plan.Officers and other employees have revolted against the attack, stopping MLAs and ministers from entering the Delhi secretariat on February 21. Members of the Indian Administrative Services, Delhi Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Services, Delhi Administration Subordinate Service and Prakash’s cadre—the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory—descended on the secretariat and allegedly manhandled AAP minister Imran Hussain. A counter-complaint has been filed. Prakash Jarwal has also lodged a complaint against the bureaucrat under the SC/ST Act. Two AAP legislators, Jarwal and Amanatullah, have been arrested.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 05, 2018 من Outlook.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة March 05, 2018 من Outlook.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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