DCW chief Maliwal's office locked, name plate taken off

July 23, 2015 10:46

Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal's worst fears have come true.

Hours after she tweeted that Lt Governor Najeeb Jung's secretariat had told her not to come to office from today, Maliwal's office has been locked up and her name board has been removed from the chamber door.

Maliwal's appointment by Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party government as the women's panel chief has been rejected by Najeeb Jung, whose office said in a sharp letter that the "constitutionally valid and consistent definition of 'Government' is the Lieutenant Governor."

The letter made it clear that the appointment of Maliwal, 30, a social activist and wife of an AAP leader, was "in breach of rules and procedures" and "had no legal sanctity".

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

"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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