AAP-BJP tussle continues, Delhi govt suspends officials
The move of suspending two IAS officers also led to 200 bureaucrats threatening a mass leave on Thursday, said reports.
According to reports, the suspended officers are Yashpal Garg, Special Secretary (Prosecution), and Subhash Chandra, Special Secretary (Prisons).
Latest reports said the suspension has been rejected by the Home Ministry.
The latest episode only added fuel to the simmering dispute between the AAP and BJP over several issues, including the targeting of BJP stalwart and Union Fiance Minister Arun Jaitley by Kejriwal over the DDCA cricket administration scam.
Kejriwal accused the ruling BJP of using all central agencies to target him and declared: "Kejriwal is not scared of the CBI, order any inquiry against me."
Challenging the CBI to "send 100 officers to the Delhi Secretariat and look into every file in my office", the Chief Minister recently reiterated that the reason for the raid was a file on details of alleged corruption in Delhi's cricket body DDCA (Delhi and District Cricket Administration), which was headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for 13 years till 2013.
He also alleged that a senior journalist told him that his wife was told by a DDCA official to "come at night" if they wanted their son to be in the Delhi cricket team. The journalist, he said, was ready to testify at an inquiry. But Mr Kejriwal offered no proof of the allegation.
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