New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has returned the Aam Aadmi Party's recommendation of removing Barkha Singh as the Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women. The L-G has sought clarification on what are the grounds on which the AAP government is seeking the re-constitution of DCW.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had attacked Barkha Singh once again on Thursday demanding she be replaced. He had sent a recommendation to him to appoint eminent social worker Maitreyi Pushpa as DCW Chairperson in place of Barkha Singh.
She claimed harassment by the Aam Aadmi Party because she summoned their controversial Law Minister Somnath Bharti. "The L-G has already ordered a probe into what happened with Somnath Bharti," Kejriwal said.
Slamming the AAP government for taking steps towards her removal, DCW Chairperson Barkha Singh on Thursday branded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers as "dictators" and accused them of acting on their whims.
Singh met Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and put forth her views on Delhi government seeking to remove her from the post of chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women.
"I am holding a constitutional post and the Delhi government cannot remove me. I have handed over a rule book of DCW to the LG so that he gets to know that the government cannot remove the chairperson from the post," Singh told reporters after meeting L-G.
"They (Kejriwal, his Ministers) have become dictators. They are acting according to their whims and fancies," she said. The chairperson also threatened to take legal recourse if she is removed by the AAP government.
"I am not going to step down as the chairperson of DCW because I still have one year and four months left in my tenure. However, if they remove me, violating rules, I will take help of the law," she said.
On being asked about AAP government's claim that she was politician, so she cannot continue as DCW chief, Bharti said as per DCW act, there is nothing written in it that a political leader cannot hold the post.
(With additional information from PTI)
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