New Delhi : Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been advised to "take steps to remove mistrust" with government employees so that Delhi’s development activities are "not affected", Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal said on Friday after he reportedly agreed to play peacemaker between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and officials protesting the alleged assault on the city’s top bureaucrat earlier this week.
This was the first meeting between Mr Kejriwal’s team and Mr Baijal after the alleged assault triggered an unprecedented faceoff between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government and Delhi bureaucrats.
At the meeting that reportedly lasted for no more than five minutes, the Lt Governor later tweeted that he had also "strongly condemned the recent unfortunate incidents" and underlined that there was "no place for violence in democracy".
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who later showered some rare praise on the Lt Governor for "looking at the entire episode" from the perspective of Delhi’s governance and help resolve the standoff.
"We told him that officers were not taking phone calls, coming for meetings. We gave him a list of officers," Mr Sisodia said about the protests by the bureaucrats over the alleged assault.
