Sparring among Delhi’s pinnacle decision-makers intensified nowadays as Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal denouncing what he called “significantly misleading, unfaithful and derogatory statements” on him, catering to a low stage of discourse. “As to ‘who’s LG’ and ‘in which did he come from’, and many others may be replied in case you had been to even cursorily consult with the Constitution of India. Others do now no longer deserve a reply, considering they glaringly cater to a completely low stage of discourse,” Mr Saxena wrote in a stinky four-web page letter.
The letter especially refers to Mr Kejriwal’s rate that the Lieutenant Governor has blocked a instructors’ schooling go to to Finland and that he refused to fulfill with AAP MLAs who marched in protest to his residence in advance this week.
Mr Saxena stated he had invited the Chief Minister and his deputy, Manish Sisodia, for talks, however they selected to return back to him with eighty humans and went on to “make a handy political posture that LG refused to fulfill me”.
“I might have, certainly, cherished to have you ever over and served you lunch as well,” Mr Saxena’s letter stated. “You might respect that, given the fast note and surprising call for in your part, it might now no longer were viable to straight away have a assembly with 70-eighty humans, nor wouldn’t it not have served any concrete purpose.”
The Lieutenant Governor brought caustically: “I become alternatively astounded on the truth that whilst the metropolis is grappling with numerous severe developmental troubles, you located time to stroll for lengthy and degree a protest supposed completely for posturing, instead of taking the difficulty to a logical end with the aid of using assembly me.”
Mr Kejriwal had, in an all-out assault on Mr Saxena withinside the Delhi assembly, defined him as a “headmaster” checking his homework. The Lieutenant Governor stated he felt it right to deliver a few troubles to Mr Kejriwal’s attention, as a way to assist him recognise them and address them in a “actual and comprehensive” manner.
“In doing so, I am now no longer appearing as a headmaster, as you’ve got got been satirically relating to me, however as a benign but conscientious voice of the humans that derives its sanctity from the moral and ethical moorings of the Constitution of India,” Mr Saxena wrote.
The Lieutenant Governor stated he had flagged that no new colleges were constructed in Delhi withinside the remaining 8 years in spite of land being allocated to the Delhi schooling department. “Adding lecture rooms in present colleges and counting lavatories as lecture rooms do now no longer, with the aid of using any stretch of imagination, amongst to establishing new colleges,” he wrote.
Countering AAP’s claims of exceptional development in schooling in Delhi, he stated the overall performance of approximately a 3rd of the scholars is “slightly basic”.
There is “rampant math and technological know-how phobia” amongst Delhi college college students and simplest a fragment in Class 12 is reading technological know-how, he stated.
Mr Saxena reasserted that he by no means rejected the Finland schooling excursion for instructors however had raised questions on a “greater price effective” option.
“You are certainly a pushed person, and I am certain that you’ll take attention of the information said above and take remedial measures to have interaction meaningfully and constructively to rectify the grave shortcomings, for higher outcomes,” he wrote.