Can be stubborn, but not violent: Kejriwal breaks silence on chief secy row
March 08, 2018 09:32
In his first direct comment on the alleged attack on chief secretary Anshu Prakash, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that he can be stubborn but not violent since only cowards resort to violence.
In a bid to persuade government employees to end the stalemate between the AAP government and the bureaucracy, a meeting was held at the CMs residence where Kejriwal spoke to a group of employees belonging to the Delhi Administration Subordinate Service and some unions.
We will never indulge in violence, that too with our own people. We will argue and fight but we will not indulge in violence, said Kejriwal.
The government claimed the meeting was a precursor to a thaw in the cold war on since February 20. But that remains a distant possibility with silent protests being held daily by bureaucrats and government employees.
In fact, within hours of the meeting, the president of Delhi Government Employees Welfare Association, Dayanand Singh, who was involved in the latest initiative, was suspended from his post.
The general secretary of the association, Deepak Bhardwaj, said that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting since Singh had breached the trust of the employees by arbitrarily attending the meeting with the political executive against the decision of the association.
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