L-G, AAP threaten each other with legal action

Irked by AAP minister Saurabh Bharadwaj’s criticism for hiring a social media agency, the Delhi L-G Secretariat on Wednesday said it would take “legal recourse” over his “abusive, defamatory and patently false” language in the matter.

It said the statement of the minister of a government that has spent Rs 1,900 crore of public money in advertising during 2019-2023 “is laughably atrocious”.

The AAP hit back at Lt Governor V K Saxena, saying it will move the apex court challenging the immunity from prosecution granted to the L-G “if he continues to misuse his constitutional office for planting false and defamatory stories about the elected ministers of Delhi government”.

In a statement, the party alleged that the L-G and his secretariat have started comparing themselves with the elected government or chief minister of Delhi whose budget for publicity and social media is approved by the legislative Assembly.