New Delhi : In a strong reprimand for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the capital’s high court today observed that his week-long sit-in at the office of the Lieutenant Governor, Anil Baijal, is unwarranted. "This can’t be called a strike. You can’t go inside someone’s office or house and hold a strike there," said the court.
Mr Kejriwal is holding an unprecedented protest against the Lieutenant Governor, who, he says, is working in a brazenly partisan fashion and at the instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prevent the Delhi government from functioning.
Specifically, the Chief Minister contends, bureaucrats or IAS officers are refusing to show up to work – or working only selectively – and the Lieutenant Governor must intervene to change that. The court hearing this morning was based on a petition that argues that the protest is unconstitutional, that Mr Kejriwal and his ministers "consider themselves above the law" and should be ordered to get back to work.
The court said it will take up the case on Friday and asked for the officers to be included in the petition.
