Arvind Kejriwal hits out at Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in the middle of the teachers’ trip to Finland
New Delhi:
An enraged Arvind Kejriwal today lashed out at Lt. Governor VK Saxena for delaying Delhi teachers’ training visit to Finland and questioned whether he really has a say in these decisions.
“LG, who?” shouted Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s chief minister, in a fiery speech at a special assembly session called to focus on what the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) believes is relentless overwork by the lieutenant governor.
“Who is this LG? He sits on our head. Who is he to decide how our children should be educated? These people have allowed our children to remain uneducated. LG has no power to stop us. Nothing in life is permanent. We may be in power at the center tomorrow LG with . Our government does not bully people,” Kejriwal said.
“My teachers have not checked my homework the way this LG checks my ‘homework’, complaining about spelling, handwriting… He is not my principal? I am an elected Chief Minister,” Mr Kejriwal quipped at AAP. – managed house.
Kejriwal and his party have accused the lieutenant governor of the Delhi government’s plan to send primary school teachers to Finland for training. Member Saxena has vehemently denied it, claiming that he only wanted a cost-benefit analysis.
“I said to him (the lieutenant governor), who are you to ask for a cost-benefit analysis? The public elected me. He said, ‘The President elected me.’ ” Now you (Lieutenant Governor) are saying, ‘You bloody Delhiwalas, you don’t know how to govern,'” shouted the Delhi Chief Minister.
Mr Kejriwal alleged that the Lt Governor boasted about the BJP winning 104 seats in the December Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections because of him.
“He told me during the meeting that the BJP won 104 seats in the MCD elections because of him and that they would not have won even 20 seats without him,” said the AAP chief, also claiming that it was because of him that Mr. Saxena said the BJP: of. to win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi in the next general elections.
He said the lieutenant governor does not have the power to take decisions alone. “The Supreme Court has clearly said that he cannot get involved in matters that obstruct the police, the country and public order,” Kejriwal added.
The Delhi Chief Minister also showed a list of “children of BJP MPs, MLAs and ministers who have studied abroad” and said that everyone should have the opportunity to get the best education.
The lieutenant governor yesterday denied that he had blocked the teachers’ travel and said he wanted the government to consider training teachers in the country. “Any statement to the contrary is deliberately misleading and mischievously motivated,” he said.