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Your references to PM Modi "inappropriate": Jung to Kejriwal
New Delhi, July 24 (IBNS): A day after Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, the latter on Friday replied to the Chief Minister adding more bitterness to the already sour relationship between the two.
Jung in his letter, available with the media, on Friday said he was "deeply disappointed" and found the Chief Minister's references to Prime Minister Narendra Modi "inappropriate."
"I must say that the tone of your letter leaves me deeply disappointed. Such inappropriate references vis-a-vis the Prime Minister do not reflect well on the Chief Minister of a Union Territory," Jung said in his letter.
Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday wrote to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to explain "how can one person call himself the government".
His letter came after Jung said his post is "the constitutionally valid and consistent definition of 'government'."
Jung had made the observation while disapproving the appointment of head of a women's right panel in Delhi.
"The government is chosen by the people. How can one person call himself the government," said the AAP national convenor.
He said the claim made by Jung is as "laughable".
In his letter, Kerjrisal had also accused the Lt Governor of making the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) ineffective on the directions of Prime Minister Modi.
"Just as the PM has made the ACB ineffective, the L-G is now making the DCW ineffective on PM's direction," Kejriwal had said in the letter.
"The DCW is completely out of jurisdiction of L-G, and he asking for file is completely undemocratic and amounts to blackmail," the Chief Minister had said.
The Kejriwal government has been embroiled in a fresh turf war with the Lieutenant Governor following the cancellation of appointment of Swati Maliwal as the new chief of the Delhi Commission of Women.
The AAP government had appointed Maliwal, wife of a party leader, but the Lieutenant Governor blocked it on the grounds of "breach of rules and procedures."
To drive home that he is the authority in making appointments in high places Jung said that the "constitutionally valid and consistent definition of 'Government' is the Lieutenant Governor."
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