AAP blinks: DCW chief's file to be sent to LG Jung for approval

July 23, 2015 14:41

There seems to be a winner in the fresh battle between Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and the Delhi government.

AAP deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has announced that he will send the file of DCW chief Swati Maliwal to the LG for approval.

Jung has cancelled the appointment of Maliwal, the wife of an AAP leader, as the new chief of the Delhi Commission for Women.

His office has said that the appointment of Maliwal is "in breach of rules and procedures" and "had no legal sanctity".

Jung also said that the "constitutionally valid and consistent definition of 'Government' is the Lieutenant Governor."

This morning, hours after she tweeted that Jung's secretariat had told her not to come to office from today, Maliwal found her office locked and her name board missing from her chambers.

The 30-year-old women's activist claimed that she had been trying to meet the Lieutenant Governor for three days but was still awaiting an appointment.

"The LG's office denied that they had called the DCW office. Shocking. Why did the DCW office lie to me? Why did they remove my name plates? Took away the files and asked me not to come?" she said in tweets.

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